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Akio Toyoda Accepts Ice Bucket Challenge [video]
Akio Toyoda the CEO and President of Toyota Motor Corporation dumps a bucket of ice water on his head to support and bring more awareness to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or more commonly known...
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Catalog Engineers and Value Stream Mapping
My approach to applying Lean in an operation is a little unorthodox. Most practitioners follow the value stream mapping approach, where product families are created and each product family is...
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Practical Applications of Queueing Theory: Apply Lean at the Constraint to...
This article is on the Practical Applications of Queueing Theory and how some of the assumptions of Queueing Theory can break down, necessitating the need for government intervention. Queueing Theory...
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Respect for People Principle
Bob Emiliani published a very good article on principle of Respect for People 1 - an aspect not well understood in Lean Management. In that article, he extends a challenge: In closing, you will have a...
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Respect for People and Takt Time
Elaborating on the Respect for People principle and challenge from Bob Emiliani, in this article I want to show how Respect for People relates to Takt Time. I’ll do so by showing how Respect for People...
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Cycle Time is to Service as Inventory is to Manufacturing
If you ever had to take the SAT or the ACT, you’ll remember those pesky analogy questions. Let me invite you to recall those – at least for today’s article. The topic for today is how Cycle Time is the...
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Interview with Matthew May on Elegance, Subtraction, and Lean
I had the wonderful opportunity to interview a good friend, Matthew May. You can learn more about Matt’s background after the interview but let me say this: Matt is world-renown business consultant...
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Improving Healthcare with Lean: An Interview with Mark Graban
We’re pleased to present to you this interview with our good friend, Mark Graban. Mark is the guy you want on your team when it comes to improving healthcare. As you read this interview, you’ll learn...
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Prostate Cancer Decision Tree: A Process Map for the Rest of Us
Prostate Cancer is a serious topic. But, today, I want to share with you something that made me smile. I went to the doctor last week and, while waiting for him to finish chit chatting with the nursing...
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Art Smalley Interview: Difference between the Toyota Production System and...
I am so excited to present to you this interview I had the opportunity to conduct with Art Smalley. In my mind, Art brings a voice of reason to the rest of the Lean world. He is one of the few...
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Lean UX Process and Principles: An Interview with Jeff Gothelf
Continuing our interview series with some of the leading voices in Lean, today we’re speaking with Jeff Gothelf, the author of Lean UX. Applying Lean to user experience is exciting and, in my opinion,...
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Lean IT Transformation: An Interview with Cecil Dijoux
Lean principles is being adopted across all business areas. It is, indeed, an exciting time to see so much acceptance. In today’s interview, we speak with Cecil Dijoux, a very influential voice in the...
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Lean Sales and Marketing with Brent Wahba
The Sales function within a company is one of the most important. After all, if there are no sales, there’s no revenue. To paraphrase Peter Drucker, the only purpose for a company is to create a...
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Kanban for Creative Knowledge Work: Interview with David J Anderson
I’m very excited to present to you this interview with David J. Anderson. He’s a Management author, consultant & trainer and Pioneer of the use of Kanban Systems in creative & knowledge worker...
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Virtual Kanban Board: Interview with Chris Hefley of LeanKit
Yesterday, we interviewed David Anderson, who pioneered the use of Kanban systems for creative and knowledge work. The popularity of Kanban has opened up a sizeable cottage industry of companies that...
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Dan Markovitz Interview: How the Shop Floor is Connected to the Customer via...
Today we hear from a leading voice in Lean for the Office and knowledge work, Dan Markovitz. I’m so excited that he took the time to speak with us today. In this interview, you’ll learn: Why Dan...
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Jeff Liker, The Toyota Way, and Unintended Consequences
We are quite pleased to have Dr. Jeffrey Liker speak with us today. If you all turn your eyes to your bookshelves, I’m sure you will likely find a few books for which Dr. Liker has authored. He has...
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Interview with Jason Yip: In Software Engineering Respect for People is...
Today we speak with Jason Yip, a principal consultant with Thoughtworks. Jason helps companies interested in improve how they develop software. In this interview, you’ll learn the following: After over...
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Laura Busche Interview on Lean Branding: Using Lean Principles to Create...
I love the fact that Lean principles is being applied everywhere. That fact alone tells me that the principles endure, regardless of value stream and is a good sign that there’s a lot of freedom with...
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Why Deming: Interview with Keith Sparkjoy Cofounder of Pluralsight
I first heard of Pluralsight when I saw a tweet from Techcrunch on the massive $135 Million Funding it received in August 2014. I thought to myself, “what is pluralsight?”. So I looked them up. It...
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