Month: January 2010

On our LinkedIn Group we get many good discussions and questions. We had one from Roger Cook that I thought was worth repeating and expanding upon. Here is the question: I’m curious if any of you have foolproof ways of insuring your metrics (which lean folks are famous for measuring

How often do you sit in a different seat at the dinner table? A regular meeting? A plane? When I travel, often starting on a regional jet, I’m usually in seat 1B. Not 1A, or 2B, but in 1B. It’s where I’m comfortable. Of course, my objective is to be

If you’re on Twitter, you know of the tradition of the Friday Follow where you share who you follow so that others might benefit in the same way. I think the same think should apply to blogging. So I occasionally post a Bloggers Friday Follows of interesting bloggers that I

Recently I posted the first video series on Cultural Transformation and described the formula H x V x F > R. I received a response on a different formula, which we turned into a guest post by Rob van Stekelenborg. Rob is working with IG&H, a Dutch-based consulting firm that

  Do you have a lot of room in your organization for people to learn? Or as soon as they step out of their comfort zone, do things get a little scary? What you do as a leader has a huge impact on the behaviors of others in terms of

Are you waiting with bated breath for Washington to fix healthcare? Me either. Regardless of your opinion on the pending legislation, there is still a problem. The soaring costs and staggering problems in healthcare still require us to fix the process. And that can’t be done from Washington. CFO Magazine

Over the past 18 months, a great deal of attention has been placed on the banks, the providing of capital to those banks, and the health and wealth of Wall Street. Banks have started to pay back their “loans” and have started demonstrating the ability to profit. But was this

This post originally appeared on the Lean Career Compass community run by Value Stream Leadership. “Respect for people” – This tenant has been thrown around a lot within the lean community in the past few years. It’s been used to challenge every company that’s ever done a layoff or anyone

  by Jamie Flinchbaugh, This continues a series titled Leading Lean A-Z. This post is K: Be Kinetic. Did you ever have one of those days where you just wanted to put your feet up on your desk and breath in and out for a while? The lean journey will

It shouldn’t be. But a lean organization also doesn’t adopt technology for technology’s sake. There are often two camps in the “lean world.” There are those who really believe that lean is about no technology. Others believe that you can’t be lean without eKanban and ERP integration. IndustryWeek covered the