Will Lean Startup thinking work at GE?

Structure eats Culture for Breakfast! “I make all our managers read The Lean Startup,” says a Wall Street Journal ad quoting Jeffrey Immell the CEO General Electric for Eric Reis’s book. Well, Mr. Immell, I would recommend that unless you change structurally, it is likely that your managers have just read a fiction book. It Read More …

ASQ Lean Enterprise Division will host the Lean Service Design Program

(ASQ)  Lean Enterprise Division will host the webinar Lean Service Design: Closing the Gaps between Perception and Reality on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST. 80% of Companies believe they deliver a Superior Service, only 8% of their Customers agree Lean Service Design changes the way you think about business. No Read More …

What a great time period for Lean Homebuilding!

It seems like an opportune time. They are getting squeezed from a lot of directions. And just like the auto industry, they are one of the most visible industries that we point towards to lead us out of the recession. Lean may not be the savior but from the description Scott Sedam, President of TrueNorth Read More …

Use the Lean 3P Process to drive Effective Change

More than a Design Tool When we think of Lean 3P are minds drift automatically  to Lean Design and Lean Product Development. That is the purpose of it; Production, Preparation, Process. As a result, we deliver not only a better product/service to the customer but also to our own internal organization. However, unbeknownst to me, Read More …

How do you Value Learning?

My original gateway to Lean came from the systems thinking perspective developed by Peter Senge in The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization and Kaplan and Norton’s, The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action. In between Lean and Systems Thinking, I spent some time with Six Sigma because Jack Welch and Read More …

Lean Homebuilding = Better Product, Greater Return

These two guys, Scott Sedam is President of TrueNorth Development and Todd Hallett, AIA, President of TK Design & Associates, Inc. might rub the Lean purist out there the wrong way. If the truth be known, I do all the time. I think this is why I liked doing this podcast. So much, that it Read More …