Managing Customer Value
When introducing Lean Thinking many of us would start with the five core concepts of Lean depicted in the classic books, The Machine that Changed the World and Lean Thinking by Womack and Jones. The basic thought process goes something like this: As value is specified, value streams are identified, wasted steps are removed, and Read More …
Cellular manufacturing is one of the most powerful Lean tools. It will allow for smaller lot production, quality improvements, and shorter lead times and simplifies the implementation of pull. Typical manufacturing systems had the same machines all grouped together and as a result batch type manufacturing was developed. As manufacturers developed cellular systems, they found Read More …
Conversations with twitter companion @flinchbaugh surfaced several frustrations with banking From @flinchbaugh Lending by the nation’s top 4 banks is down over $150 Billion – we still have a lending crisis that is hurting the ability to create jobs. @flinchbaugh is that a lending issue or if companies had a demand could they get the Read More …
Outstanding presentation from Amy Jo Kim, an adjunct professor of Game Design at USC’s Digital Media school, recently named top US-based game design school. She’s also the author of Community Building on the Web (2000), a design handbook for digital communities that’s used worldwide at game studios & universities.[Email Amy]. This presentation was delivered at Read More …
Exciting News! I will be a guest on the The Lean Nation radio show Monday, July 12th from 4-5pm Est. on 790 AM Talk and Business, hosted by Karl Wadensten. We’re going to discuss Marketing with Lean and more specifically Value Stream Marketing and the Marketing Kanban. This is an important topic and I’m looking Read More …
This is a transcription of the podcast I had with Jim Luckman of the Lean Transformations Group. Jim will be the instructor for this LEI Workshop in Indianapolis on June 22nd – Value-Stream Mapping for the Office and Service: This interactive workshop demonstrates how to apply value-stream mapping, a fundamental and critical tool, to address Read More …