My guest on the Business901 podcast was Tracey Richardson, president of Teaching Lean Inc.. She has over 22 years of experience in Toyota methodologies including: Lean Problem Solving, Quality Circles, Lean Manufacturing tools, Standardized Work, Job Instruction Training, Toyota Production System, Toyota Way Values, Culture Development, Visualization (Workplace Management Systems), Continuous Improvement (Kaizen), Meeting Facilitation/Teamwork, Read More …
Is your program or even project manager ready for this kind of challenge? How does a classic program and project management change as a result of this global influence? Paula Wagner,co-author of Global Program Management did a great job of answering these questions as they applied to both small and large organizations. With the increase Read More …
Clifford Stoll could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers. Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. But he’s not going to. Which is fine, because it would be criminal to confine a man with interests as multifarious as Stoll’s to give a talk on any one topic. Instead, he simply Read More …
The old adage of Lean was that everything that we did we referenced to Toyota. I have always wondered why since so much of Lean was actually American; Ford, Deming, etc. Due to their success Toyota certainly popularized Lean, mostly in the manufacturing area but as Lean has proliferated to other areas it has been Read More …
Lean Enterprise Institute Announces 6 Lean Management Workshops for Indianapolis The training sessions will help Lean Thinkers launch and sustain lean transformations in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing processes. The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute will run workshops June 22-24, 2010, in Indianapolis on how to implement and sustain lean management methods in manufacturing, service, and office processes. Read More …
My guest on the Business901 Podcast was Ankit Patel, the founder of The Lean Way Consulting. We discussed applying Lean principles to Small Business. Ankit is a Lean Practitioner that has taken his expertise to the front-line of many small business. Little theory was discussed in this conversation. There was little if any should “do’s” Read More …