I recently spoke at Lean Frontier’s Lean Leadership Week Summit, which focused on lean people development and lean accounting. This summit traditionally attracts a lot of HR professionals working in organizations undergoing a lean journey. During a concurrent session, I shared some of the ways that I’ve exercised with clients…
For small- and mid-sized businesses, leveraging Lean practices can help improve the bottom line and ensure a smooth operation. By striking the right balance between value-added services and the cost of goods and services, these organizations can generate huge savings in terms of both costs and time. Read more at…
When it came to building the first airplane, the Wright brothers took a Lean approach. By rethinking the process, transforming data into actionable knowledge, and breaking down the problem, they not only developed modern air travel, they also taught us how to make product development more efficient. Read more at…
How do we get our employees excited about our organization’s Mission, Vision and Values? I’ve heard this concern from organizational leaders before and I wanted to share an example of a government organization successfully using a powerful but simple approach. The Usual Way A typical method of building an organization’s…
I confess I am a success tips junkie. If I see “The 5 Things Successful People Do,” “How to Be Your Most Productive Self,” “10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Whatever” – anything remotely hinting at a better way – Click, I’m going to give it a read.…
So your organization is embarking on a Lean Journey. Congratulations! The Lean journey can be transformational and exciting for an organization. It can also be daunting and frustrating too. How do leaders figure out how to transform the people, the processes and the performance of an organization? Hopefully, leaders consider…
Lean is a process improvement model that has been around in some form for a long, long time. Some tie it’s start to the development of Toyota’s Production System that led to Toyota’s meteoric rise in the automotive word. Others say that Henry Ford started Lean with his automated assembly…