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"Still the question recures "can we do better?" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occas...

If there is only one thing we do today that has the biggest impact to our quality, cost and productivity, what would that be? Would it be st...

For those interested in learning more about TWI (Training Within Industry) and near the Indianapolis area, there is a TWI Symposium hosted b...

It may just be me but I detect a shift by some, me included, towards simplicity or leaning towards a minimalist approach to life and work. ...

With all the buzz on twitter , I thought I would give it a try as an experiment. I hope to link up with others on the lean journey using tw...

Now that the holiday festivities are over, the Christmas tree has been taken down, the stocking are stored away for next year along with any...

John Hunter at Curious Cat has asked me to help co-host part of a larger scale Management Carnival Best of 2008 series where several blogger...

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...