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Lean Reading & Learning: Fill Your Bookshelf with Lean Knowledge
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. ~ Colin Powell Learning is all about acquiring new knowledge or reinforcing existing knowledge....
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Lean and Agile Software Development
It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with lean concepts that the methodology eventually found its way into software development. Today, lean and agile are commonly encountered words in...
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Fundamental Parts of Statistics for a Lean Leader
Statistics is an integral part of lean methodologies, and any leader pursuing a professional development in the lean direction should definitely take a lot of time to fully grasp all the intricate...
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Building a New Organization with Continuous Improvement in Mind
Running your organization with continuous improvement on your mind at every step is important, but it’s often hard to transfer an already existing structure to such a system without a significant...
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How to Reinforce Successful Results Without Unnecessary Repetition
Building on what you’ve learned is one of the core concepts in Six Sigma, and it’s important to develop a good intuition for extracting the valuable knowledge from each experiment you run in the...
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How a Lean Organization Can Deal with Unexpected Shrinkages
When you’re working in a lean organization, you’re normally always striving for expansion and constant improvement. However, that’s not always possible in some circumstances, and when your company...
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Kanban – Boards and Cards Go Digital as a Viral App
Kanban is an approach to process change for organizations, which uses visualization with a Kanban board. It allows a better understanding of work and workflow. Kanban practice limits work in progress,...
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VIDEO – Kanban Boards Come To Life With Trello
Trello is an web-based application, designed for group collaboration and project management. It organizes multiple projects into boards and at the same time you can see what’s being worked on, who’s...
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Understanding the Lean Startup Methodology: An Overview
Building a company from the ground up can be a stressful and challenging task, even if you already have experience in running a business. In recent years, we’ve seen the rise of many different startup...
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How Will Lean Look in the Future?
Lean is constantly evolving, and even though it’s a relatively new concept, it’s already gone through lots of different iterations and phases. Today, it can be found in many industries, practically...
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Making Sure You’re Applying Your Skills Completely after Getting Your Belt in...
Getting a new belt in Six Sigma – or even your first one – is a huge moment for any specialist in the field, but it’s only a small step towards building yourself up as the true professional you’re...
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5 Lean Strategies to Improve Operations at a Call Center
Call centers are among the most dynamic types of organizations, and the environment in a place like this can be hectic. They require a lot of precise management in order to ensure a smooth,...
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6 Big Losses: Common Causes of Waste in Manufacturing
Dealing with waste and removing it from every aspect of an organization’s workflow is at the core of Six Sigma, and those with long-running experience in manufacturing can probably immediately point...
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How Can Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) Help with Continuous Improvement...
Even though standard operating procedures (or SOPs for short) tend to have a poor reputation in certain workplaces, they can actually be a very powerful tool for defining a set of sound rules and...
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Value-Stream Mapping: Why Is It Underutilized?
Good lean leaders can spend a lot of time telling you about the benefits of Value-Stream Mapping (VSM) and how it can transform your organization into a more adequately structured and maintained one,...
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How Can Total Productive Maintenance Improve Our Company’s Bottom Line?
Total Productive Maintenance – or TPM for short – is a popular technique in the industrial sector developed to address the waste that can be created through improper handling of tools and other...
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A3 Problem Solving and Its Use in Healthcare
The A3 problem solving method originated at Toyota, but since then it’s spread all over the world and to many different industries. It’s flexible enough to be easily adapted to a variety of contexts,...
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How Can a Time Study Improve Our Workplace?
Understanding the relationships between different nodes in your production chain and how a small delay in one part of the company can have a major impact on another area is important for a good...
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Lean Thinking – The 5 Principles to Live By
The term Lean Thinking was coined by James Womack and Daniel Jones in their book by the same name, which captures the magic of the Toyota Production System (TPS). It became a new way of thinking. The...
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YouTube Video: The Principles of Lean Thinking
Lean Thinking is a business methodology that aims to provide a new way to think about how to organize activities to deliver more benefits to society and value to individuals while eliminating waste....
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