The Exploration (Innovation) Card

EDCA or Explore-Do-Check-Act.  I like to use this term; EDCA learned from Graham Hill to designate the Explore aspect of Lean. I view it as more of Design Type thinking content that allows for that collaborative learning cycles with a customer. We are capturing comments and/or suggested improvements to the card over on LinkedIn, http://bit.ly/2eKKA0t. Download Read More …

Mid-Week Savannah Lean Workshops: Huge ROI on Training

Between the two Savannah, GA summits, Lean People Development Summit and Lean Accounting & Management, a unique offering of workshops will be offered to both sets of attendees. However, the registration is open to anyone, you do not have to participate in either summit. If you live within 100 miles of Savannah, you can experience a half Read More …

Lean People Development Summit Ad Portfolio

Lean People Development Summit is just a little over a week away. As a result, we have completed our Ad copy and wanted to upload it for anyone’s review. There was a fair amount of other copy and video made but I thought this collection stood on its own as more of that display ad style. Read More …

Eliminating Budget Waste to Become Future Ready

Senior leadership often uses the budgeting process to try to squeeze costs out of your organization. As a result, the budgeting process at most organizations has become one of the most painful to endure. Yet if you were to evaluate your current budgeting process, do you find that it is full of the kind of Read More …

Failure as an Art Form

Stefana Saxton serves as a Business Excellence Innovation Leader for Business Excellence (BEx®) at Black & Veatch where she works with internal and external clients to identify, prioritize, and execute mission critical business improvements and innovations that add value to the company, its business partners, and clients globally. Stefana has worked with clients in healthcare, Read More …

Guilty of Practicing Lean – Lock’em Up

Orry and Art are participating in the upcoming Lean People Development and Lean Accounting Summits taking place during the week of September 11-15, 2017 in the charming southern city of Savannah, GA. Orry Fiume recently co-authored the book, The Lean Strategy, Orry Fiume is the retired CFO and Director of The Wiremold Company. Orry led Wiremold’s conversion to lean accounting in Read More …