Strength Based Approach to Lean and Six Sigma

David Shaked of Almond-Insight  discusses his book, Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma: Building Positive and Engaging Business Improvement. Download PDF Transcript of Podcast Note: This is a transcription of a podcast. It has not gone through a professional editing process and may contain grammatical errors or incorrect formatting.                  Read More …

Value Stream Mapping with Locher

Drew co-authored a book titled, “The Complete Lean Enterprise: Value Stream Mapping for Administrative and Office Processes ”. The book won a Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Excellence in Manufacturing Research. Later he authored, “Value Stream Mapping for Lean Development: A How-To Guide for Streamlining Time to Market ”. This book demonstrates the application of Lean Read More …

Strength Based Lean Six Sigma

David Shaked of Almond-Insight  discusses his book, Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma: Building Positive and Engaging Business Improvement. Download PDF Transcript of Podcast Note: This is a transcription of a podcast. It has not gone through a professional editing process and may contain grammatical errors or incorrect formatting.                  Read More …

Are Outcomes and Impacts old news?

Is Outcome-Based Planning being passed by Design Thinking, Lean Startup(TM), and the other Innovation chatter that we see? This focus is certainly deserving and a necessary component in today’s marketplace. Where the strength of an Outcome approach takes place is in understanding your customers, markets and most of all the people that you influence. Outcome-Based Read More …

Lean Offers a Variety of Choices to drive a Nail

If we review just a few of the different Lean venues of Lean Six Sigma, Lean Startup, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Healthcare, Lean Software and that upstart of Lean Marketing, it seems once there is a methodology that works we all piggy back on the term to create some foundation for us to tweak and create Read More …

The Advantages of Lean in Food Safety

Preston Blevins discusses his new book Food Safety Regulatory Compliance: Catalyst for a Lean and Sustainable Food Supply Chain (Resource Management) Download PDF Transcript of Podcast Note: This is a transcription of a podcast. It has not gone through a professional editing process and may contain grammatical errors or incorrect formatting.            Read More …