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PDCA

Fearless Problem Solving [Guest Post]

06.14.2011

Guest Post: Donald Sweigart worked with “The Body Shop @” which developed the “Star-Link Certified” Lean business model improving Profitability, CSI, and Cycle Time in the Collision Repair Industry. This model is now licensed by a Fortune 100 in it’s Industry-wide Lean Training. His passion is implementing Lean solutions in industry. You can’t fix a [...]

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This is NOT a tree

10.29.2010

This is not a tree. Can you tell me what it really is? Time’s up. It is a picture of a tree. No, it’s not a stupid trick question…there is a point behind it. So often people confuse the real thing with the representation of that thing. This picture of a tree doesn’t grow, blow [...]

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Forget the New Year’s Resolution..

12.30.2009

..set a real goal instead. Resolutions are just about your intentions. But goals, when done correctly, are about your actions. Don’t resolve. Resolve is like hope. Only planning and action will move you forward. Yes, it’s the goal setting time of year. But don’t set goals just because your company says you have to. And [...]

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Reflect to Improve, and Make it a Habit

10.28.2009

How do you get started on the lean journey? Many organizations struggle with how to get started. They see this monumental journey ahead of them and there is so much to do, but where to start? I think a small and simple way to get started is just begin a small and regular practice of [...]

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Innovation and Rewarding Learning

10.23.2009

Over on the Lean Blog Mark Graban wrote a post titled Innovation Is as Innovation Does? Besides channeling Forrest Gump, this makes a great point. Innovation is an outcome, but without a process we won’t get it. And that process includes culture, skill, systems, methods, and so on. Mark makes a point about what behavior [...]

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PDCA in Non-Deterministic Systems

10.13.2009

When does PDCA not apply? Can we say “not here”? Alan Shalloway attempted to address this for the software community in his blog last week. You can read his full post yourself. Apparently many in the software community (but not all, before you call me out on that) feel that PDCA can’t work because your [...]

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