Kaizen

It wasn't quite a Von Trapp family moment, but it certainly was a good lean moment. During a kaizen report-out, an associate was sharing several improvement ideas.

I recently conducted a free one hour webinar on the subject of kaizen event malpractice, its causes, effects and how to avoid them.

I recently experienced  the pain associated with coaching a team with poor chemistry. It was a kaizen event team, so the pain was finite.

Labor density is not a measurement that is thrown around very often, at least explicitly. Conceptually however, it must be resident somewhere in the lean thinker's headset.

Often, people jokingly accuse me of owning stock in 3M. Why? Because I tend to use and coach others to use lots of Post-it® notes.

It happens way too often. Folks who are ostensibly conducting time observations frequently: