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The focus of kaizen is not on the work we do, it is on all the things that get in the way of the work we do.

After a long, exciting and particular successful kaizen event at one of our plants, I returned to my home office to find a simple wooden pla...

The path on the lean journey is not an easy one as many of us have already discovered. Not only do we do battle with the defenders of the s...

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year filled with hope and harmony.

We completed our finance kaizen event today with a greater appreciation and understanding of the problems our finance associates had to endu...

This week we are working outside the traditional lean domain of manufacturing to apply the lean principles in our finance area on a small pr...

“Moving machines takes minutes, but changing the way people think and act takes many years. What we call culture is the way we automaticall...

Why do we prefer to sweep the floor every day rather than find the source of the dirt?

My personal lean journey began in July 1985 when a former Toyota Industrial Engineer from Japan visited my plant to teach us how to improve....

During our kaizen event last week, I was walking up and down the assembly line, practicing my observation skills when I noticed a small hesi...

“The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.” Huang Po

After a full day of kaizen yesterday, I made it just in time to watch my son play in his soccer double headed last night. It is always exci...

Getting your Masters Degree in Business? Going after a Master Black Belt Certification? Masters in Lean Six Sigma? Do you secretly wish to b...

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One of the keynote presentations at the 2008 AME Conference was Steve Spear, author of Chasing the Rabbit. Steve’s presentation was a brief ...

What a great experience to learn from so many lean leaders and practitioners. After two days of attending sessions and networking with other...

I made it to Toronto tonight for the AME Conference this week. It should be an outstanding week and I look forward to learning more on opera...

One of the barriers to Kaizen is found in the comfortable arms of the status quo. For most of us, we have difficulty breaking away from wha...

These words spoken by Taiichi Ohno have been one of his most popular and well known sayings within our lean community. Typically, we use hi...

While rolling out our My CI program to all our manufacturing facilities, we learned that acronyms do not translate well. In our Chihuahua, ...