Jacob Stoller is an author, speaker, and consultant specializing in communication between experts and outsiders in areas such as Lean management, information technology, accounting, and engineering. His book, The Lean CEO: Leading the Way to World-Class Excellence reveals the true power of Lean through in-depth interviews with CEOs who have gone beyond tool adoption and established Lean Read More …
Dan Markovitz is the founder and president of TimeBack Management. He focuses on improving individual and team productivity through the adaptation of lean concepts. He’s a faculty member of the Lean Enterprise Institute and teaches classes at the Ohio State University’s Fisher School of Business. Dan’s book on improving personal performance by utilizing lean manufacturing Read More …
Shingo Prize winning author, Conrad Soltero. Conrad won the Shingo Prize as the principal author of The 7 Kata: Toyota Kata, TWI, and Lean Training. It was published in 2012 by Productivity Press. He works at the Texas Manufacturing and Assistance Center or TMAC as we’ll call it and is a Shingo prize examiner. Download Read More …
Carol Ptak and Chad Smith are the co-author of the new Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning 3/E. A fully revised and updated edition of the landmark work on material requirements planning (MRP), Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning, Third Edition focuses on the new rules required to effectively support a manufacturing operation using MRP systems in the twenty-first Read More …
I skipped a podcast session this week because of the holidays. However, I will be back next week with Shingo Prize winning author, Conrad Soltero. Conrad won the Shingo Prize as the principal author of The 7 Kata: Toyota Kata, TWI, and Lean Training. It was published in 2012 by Productivity Press. An excerpt from Read More …
Jason Kilgore is a Business Process Manager for Riverside Health System in Newport News, Virginia, where he has utilized his expertise in Project Management, Lean, and Six Sigma (Black Belt) to streamline processes, saving millions of dollars annually. In his book The Elegant Process, Jason demonstrates his value-based approach to simultaneously achieving quality and financial Read More …