Lean technology has now evolved from the manufacturing floor to the whole enterprise. Many companies have found real value in applying the fundamental concepts of Lean throughout the organization. The lean concepts of Kaizen, PDCA and the tools such as Pareto Charts, 5 Why’s and even Poka Yoke are commonplace. However, the concept of Standard Read More …
Maritza van den Heuvel. a Certified Scrum Master and Certified Product Owner has been part of a software development team changing from waterfall to agile over the last three years, first as lead tester and now as the Product Owner. She is also a mom, with the ongoing challenge of keeping family life organized with Read More …
I find the Systems2win Company a fascinating story. They provide a standardized set of easy-to-use Excel templates for business process improvement primarily for the use in the Lean and Six Sigma methodologies. The range and the depth of detail and training in these templates are truly remarkable. Their tag line is “Continuously improving tools for Read More …
Timothy W. Fowler (also known as The Right Brain) is CEO of BusinessLeadership.com. He details numerous process improvement efforts utilizing right-brain dominant-skills in the Business901 podcast and answered a few questions I had… Specifically what is Right Brain problem-solving? How can right brain thinking help business leaders? Do you want a whole group of right Read More …
This is a transcription of the Business901 podcast, Lean Coaching & Learning with Jeff Liker with Dr. Jeffrey Liker on Coaching Lean. Dr. Liker is the author of The Toyota Way Fieldbook and the upcoming book, The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement (Book release date is April 22nd, Podcast will be later this month). Liker Read More …
Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script — give students video lectures to watch at Read More …