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Lean Topics in Linkedin Discussions

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network with over 120 million members and growing rapidly. LinkedIn helps exchange knowledge, ideas, and opportunities with a network of professionals. And speaking of that, LinkedIn has also served as a portal to many great discussions.

LinkedIn Groups, of course, became the forum that gathers all of the questions from many curious minds. There have been many discussions on lean that have been interesting and useful. Here are some of the groups I belong and some of the interesting discussions on lean:

Lean CEO Group

Lean CEO is a group connected to the Lean CEO Newsletter and related blog, founded by Kevin Meyer.

1. “What business book has had the most impact on YOUR business, that you would recommend that others in this LeanCEO group read?” posted by Anne C Graham, BBM
2. “Do you think it matters what workers are called (employees, associates, partners, team members, etc)? How should we refer to them collectively (e.g. human resources, assets, capital, talent, etc)?” posted by Karen Martin
3. “Having conducted several Kaizen events with varying degrees of success, I am wondering if I can get some advice from others on how to make the level of improvement more consistent and sustainable.” posted by Gary Bublick

AME Group

AME Group is related to The Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME), which is the premier not-for-profit organization dedicated to the journey of continuous improvement and enterprise excellence.

1. What would a Lean Government look like? asked by Isaac Smith
2. Manufacturing in North America! Is it a “must have” or a “let go”? What do you think? asked by Karin Lindner
3. “I think my workers are stupid!” another from Karin Lindner

Industry Week Group

Related to the Industry Week magazine, The Industry Week Manufacturing Network connects decision-makers in all types of manufacturing businesses.

1. Bringing Manufacturing Back to America Starts with Buying Locally shared by Dustin Mattison
2. In order to be successful, we must first have the necessary tools at our disposal to create change. shared by Langley Shazor
3. I’ll be writing about 1. improving equipment uptime and 2. job rotation in the coming weeks and months. If you have any good sources or are a good source, please let me know. shared by Jill Jusko

Lean Practitioners Group

Lean Practitioners Group is consisted of senior professionals & practitioners to share Lean & Six Sigma learnings, best practices & opportunities.

1. Hi, need a name for a department heading Lean,Six Sigma,CI,Process Improvement initiatives across the business. (The name should have ‘Lean’ in it)..Any suggestions?? raised by Vivek Vijayan
2. From a Lean perspective, are the terms “intervention” and “countermeasure” synonymous with one another? raised by Bob Muir
3. Our aerospace company has been running for a year we’re growing from 350 to 520 employees, I am the only lean guy, how many lean people should be in a team? raised by Robbie Howarth

We encourage you to join one of these groups and start a discussion, and see what happens.