PDCA

Mark Graban has been gracious enough to allow me to guest blog on his

Whenever we undertake the (re)design or (re)development of a process, product, system, layout, tool, visual control, etc.

Remember back when your math teacher told you to "show your work"?

Today's Wall Street Journal front page contained an article entitled, "Moment of Truth for Productivity Boom." The article refl

Several days ago, during a health care value stream analysis, I was impressed with the team's bias for action.

Standard work is not a once and done proposition. That would be lean anathema.

Joe Dager, an expert in lean marketing and founder of the Business901 blog

The word humility is derived from the Latin word for ground, humus. The notion of ground, earth or dirt makes sense in that humility is a virtue that keeps a person from reaching beyond himself or herself.

Strange name, "bowling chart," but it's a simple and powerful tool. It forces critical thinking around breakthrough objectives and facilitates typically monthly checkpoints that help drive accountability, PDCA and ultimately execution.

Recently, I added a new step to my kaizen event standard work.