Little Bets – The Way to take an Affordable Risk

Start Small, Iterate a lot, Scale – that’s the advice from Peter Sims, the author of the new book Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries. When reading the book, you can’t help but think about Eric Ries of The Lean Startup fame. Eric characterizes his Little Bets with the description of the Read More …

Is Std Work needed in Sales & Marketing?

Watch as Mike Micklewright uses comedy, to dissect the top 10 list of unacceptable corrective actions when it comes to today’s quality systems: You know why this video is funny? It is because we have heard them all. In fact, Most of us have said them ourselves at one time. And as odd as it Read More …

Training Video for Continuous Improvement

Take note of the individual sub-titles and discuss each section after it is completed. You can have a lot of fun with this and you may get a few surprises. It is actually a good exercise to use for training continuous improvement groups. I was able to actually use it in a webinar. About the Read More …

Taking the Lean Enterprise Outside the 4 Walls

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. As a result of discussing Read More …

Is PDCA a Culture or a Tool in a Lean Enterprise

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. As a result of discussing Read More …

Can you really use Lean for Marketing? – Dr. Balle

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. As a result of discussing Read More …