The Gemba Academy Story

I’m passionate about continuous improvement and teaching others about it and so I approached my now business partner, John Miller and Kevin Meyer, who’s also my business partner, there’s three of us, about starting an online training business. – Ron Pereira The Gemba Academy provides high quality online and DVD-based lean manufacturing training for individuals Read More …

Dealstorming A3

Dealstorming is a problem-solving technique that Tim Sanders developed over the last fifteen years into a repeatable, cyclical process that has evolved to include the following seven steps: qualify, organize, prepare, convene, execute, analyze, and report. His book,  Dealstorming: The Secret Weapon That Can Solve Your Toughest Sales Challenges goes much deeper into each of these steps. Read More …

Guidance for the New Manager

Bryan Armentrout  is the owner of The Food Leadership Group, a food safety and quality systems consulting firm. He has written a new book called The New Manager Mindset: How to Master the Four Secrets of Leadership that College Doesn’t Teach You which is about passing along what he has learned in over 20+ years as Read More …

Just not eLearning at the Gemba Academy

I’m a big advocate of flip learning and online training and your site licenses are very compatible to that. Someone can watch and then they can go practice and go over the practice with a consultant or a partner or somebody. Is that something you do with Gemba? Is that constructed somehow? – Joe Dager An Read More …

Marketing with A3 – Short Program

(2) One-hour Sessions on Consecutive Days When most Lean Organizations try to introduce Lean to sales and marketing they seldom take the time to develop Lean Thinking. They first start trying to apply the tools of Lean or trying to build a culture of Lean. It is a very difficult thing to do. Using the A3 Read More …

Using Lean Tools for Learning

Can I use your ADTP model along with an A3? – Joe Todd Sperl:  Absolutely. We think it fits well with the A3, and that’s the way we designed and put it into the book. The way we’ve overlapped it, we think it blends nicely with that A3. Some may agree, and some may disagree. Read More …