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Help! No Management Support!

By Ron Pereira - July 19th, 2011

Most will agree that having top management support is crucial to succeeding at any form of continuous improvement – lean, six sigma, TOC, etc. But what happens when management isn’t behind the employees who are attempting to use le

7 Amish Habits to Make You Lean and Wealthy

By Jon Miller - July 17th, 2011

An article ran one week ago in the Seattle Times, titled “The frugal Amish know about wealth”. The Amish Mennonites are a subgroup of Protestant Christians mostly living in rural communities in parts of USA and Canda. They

Gemba Glossary: Kaizen

By Ron Pereira - July 14th, 2011

Here is the latest Gemba Glossary video focused on the word kaizen. If you missed any of the preview Gemba Glossary videos please be sure to check them out: Gemba Glossary: 5S Gemba Glossary: 7 Wastes And to access more than 165 othe

3 Ways to Break Through Productivity Ruts

By Ron Pereira - July 12th, 2011

We’ve all been there… stuck in rut. Unmotivated. Bored. Possibly even a bit down in the dumps. And, to be sure, when we’re in this dip it’s easy for our personal productivity to hit rock bottom. With this said, here are 3 thing

The New Math of Daily Kaizen

By Jon Miller - July 10th, 2011

The true meaning of kaizen, we like to say at our Institute, is to involve everyone everywhere in making improvements every day. Kaizen is not just about the 5-day rapid improvement events, although these can be great vehicles for brin

Hustle

By Ron Pereira - July 6th, 2011

It’s 12:43 AM and I’ve been in the zone working on some Gemba Academy projects. I can’t explain it… but I love working late into the night from time to time. I do think getting adequate sleep is supremely impo

Video Interview with Massaki Imai, Kaizen Pioneer

By Jon Miller - July 6th, 2011

Masaaki Imai is the founder of our company Kaizen Institute and author of two classics on lean management, Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success and Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-cost Approach to Management he is work

Great, here comes Mr. “Oh – No!”

By Ron Pereira - June 28th, 2011

As I mentioned in a recent article I had the great honor of meeting Mr. Masaaki Imai, the founder of the Kaizen Institute and author of several lean related books. As it turns out, Mr. Imai knew Mr. Taiichi Ohno – the chief architect

Children's Hospital of Saskatchewan – Getting Lean

By Jon Miller - June 28th, 2011

Here is a great 4-minute Youtube video showing how the Kaizen Institute teams in the USA and Canada applied the lean methodology of Production Preparation Process (3P) in designing a new facility at the Children’s Hospital of Sas

The Importance of Being Columbo

By Jon Miller - June 26th, 2011

During the 1970s I shared one experience in common with Taiichi Ohno. We both watched Colombo on television, dubbed in Japanese. In fact this is something I share with possibly a hundred million Japanese people, so it only goes to show

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