The Lean Enterprise Institute is coming up on it’s 22nd Anniversary which means founder James Womack must be proud! We know he’s proud of his of meeting his daily goal of 10,000 steps. Time to celebrate the nonprofit LEI and its generous founder. Happy Birthday to both of you! Like…
Lean Frontiers and the Lean Enterprise Institute collaboratively hosted the Lean Coaching Summit in Seattle, WA this July. The event was intimate enough to make you feel like you’d met everyone but big enough to connect you to the Lean community. Attendees included: Coaches for; Executives, Management, Organizations, Lean/Problem Solving/Continuous…
In a recent blog by Mark Reich, Senior Coach for the Lean Enterprise Institute, he harps on an experience circa 1994 where he reminisces on a life-long lesson on how a do-first mentality can bring more value to improving a process than coaching advice. With no engineering experience, Reich, an…
GoLeanSixSigma.com is honored to support the 2017 Lean Transformation Summit taking place on March 7-8 at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in sunny Carlsbad, California. Each year Lean thinkers from dozens of industries, at every stage of their journey, gather at the Lean Transformation Summit to learn, share and…
Once upon a time, Washington State cut $50,000 checks to 165 small cities under 5,000 population to fund street resurfacing. This was not economical nor making sense. The Washington State Transportation Improvement Board (TIB) then conducted a PDCA study of how best to provide street preservation support. After gathering the…