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Getting the culture right is vital to lean. This video course is a more conceptual complement to the Lean Principles course. The Lean Principles course lays out 5 specific principles, whereas this course outlines the logic around why it’s so important to make your journey about principles and behaviors, whether

In this episode of People Solve Problems, host Jamie Flinchbaugh welcomes Dr. Greg Jacobson, CEO and Co-founder of KaiNexus, for an insightful conversation about the intersection of medical training, psychological safety, and continuous improvement culture. Greg’s journey into the world of Lean and Kaizen began in 2004 when his department

Lean is born from how we think. Most efforts at lean transformation focus too much on only tools and projects, but it’s the principles and behaviors that separate excellent lean journeys from the rest. Jamie Flinchbaugh and Andy Carlino outlined 5 principles for lean thinking in the book The Hitchhiker’s

In this episode of People Solve Problems, host Jamie Flinchbaugh welcomes Mark Reich, Senior Coach and Chief Engineer of Strategy at the Lean Enterprise Institute. Mark brings a wealth of experience from his 23 years at Toyota, where he learned and led management systems, followed by 13 years at the

Bad systems and processes beat good people. Good process design can help a company scale more easily, reduce errors, gain efficiency, and even free up talent for more valuable work. What’s often missing is a common and effective framework for how to design, manage, and improve that work. This 6-video

    Laurie Harbour, Partner at Wipfli LLP, joined Jamie Flinchbaugh on the People Solve Problems podcast to discuss leadership’s critical role in integrating the next generation of manufacturing talent. Laurie, author of Tradition Meets Transformation, brings over 35 years of manufacturing experience helping companies improve efficiency and profitability. Laurie

Crafting a lean journey isn’t just about change management. Like several other effects-everyone, embed-in-the-work transformations, such as a digital transformation, it requires a more nuanced and comprehensive approach to transformation. In this course, hear about a structure to organize the change and practical advice about how to execute it. There

Kevin Tarrant, Ex-CHRO of WABCO and current President of HR Co-Pilot Consulting, brings 40 years of human capital experience to Jamie Flinchbaugh’s People Solve Problems podcast. With a background spanning manufacturing, high tech, software development, and service industries across global organizations, Kevin shares insights from his extensive career, including his

Are you starting your problem solving on auto-pilot? Do you need some kind of trigger to drive systemic, rigorous problem solving? Most people do, and it’s a missed opportunity. I came across this quote from Marvin Minksy, co-founder of MIT’s AI lab: The way people solve problems is first by

Elevating the effectiveness of your lean efforts depends greatly on leadership engagement; not just leadership support, but engagement. In this 6-video course, we cover 5 leadership moves that are really useful in a lean transformation. They are the ones that you hear about time and time again for any leadership