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As young children, we learn from our experiences through relentless trial and erro...

Step right up Ladies and Gentleman! Do you suffer from bulging inventories? Are you feeling tired and wore down chasing problems everyday...

My good friend, Jonathan Sands, a Director of Operational Excellence for a large firm, recently told me about his experience with a company ...

I invite you to please join me in a free webinar next week “A Day in the Life of a Lean Supervisor” hosted by Gemba Academy on April 4, 2012...

The more I listen, the more I know. The more I do, the more I learn. The more I think, the more I understand.

Growing up I watched plenty of movies, with action movies being my favorite, especially good guy versus bad guy with the good guys always wi...

After a great kaizen event this week, kicking off an eight week project looking at reducing real waste (actually reducing landfill waste gen...

Some lessons for our lean journey can be easily seen on NBC’s The Biggest Loser in every single episode: To get results, you gotta do the wo...

On our kaizen tour last week in Seattle, we included a stop at Boeing in Everett, Washington to observe their production lines and witness a...

“You don’t have to be good to start, but you do have to start to be good.” Unknown Author Regardless of task, project, or journey, everyone ...

With the recently announced resignation of Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple, many people are already speculating on the future of Apple. Certainly...

In the hustle and bustle of everyday work, amid the chaos of surviving our broken systems to get things done while juggling our efforts to f...

How many times have you heard someone say, “That’s not my job”? As we moved from the craftsman era to specialized, functional silos...

This morning, I read the following email sent to me by my good friend, Jeff Fuchs written to his lean students after a recent medical visit ...

Masaaki Imai June 2011 KAIZEN Institute USA forum View more presentations from Mike Wroblewski Last week I had the wonderful opportunity ...

One of our hospital clients that we are helping guide on their lean journey, in particular, using the 3P lean approach, is Children’s Hospit...

Here is a recent Dilbert strip poking fun at Kaizen. Kaizen is NOT something that is done to people as it seems in this joke yet in many com...

On a recent business process kaizen to improve a warehouse receiving process, our team was focused on improving the time from when the mat...

I found a copy of this recent Dilbert Comic Strip on a stand up meeting white board taking a poke at stand up meetings. Funny except for hi...

Coming up next week, Chris Schrandt and I will present for an afternoon on the theme of Using 3P to Support Healthcare Facility Design . Bot...