June 2015 | Gemba Academy

The High Cost of Ignoring Standard Work

By Jon Miller - June 29th, 2015

This June marked the 200th anniversary of the defeat of Napoleon by Wellington at Waterloo, which effectively ended his career as a military and political leader. Reading Andrew Roberts’ excellent book Napoleon: A Life, it became app

Lean Beginnings: My Journey So Far

By Jessica Bush - June 26th, 2015

By Jessica Bush I’ll admit, when I applied for the Marketing Specialist position at Gemba Academy, I didn’t know much about lean. I was less than a year out of college and all I had to go off of were snippets of information from on

GA 064 | Leading in a Lean Environment with Kent Bradley

By Ron Pereira - June 25th, 2015

Press the play button above to listen to the episode. If you’re reading this via email or RSS click the image below to listen to the episode. Today’s guest, Kent Bradley, has more than 20 years of lean experience and an imp

The Most Dangerous Idea in the World

By Jon Miller - June 22nd, 2015

This week I learned about a new book, Kaizen Forever: Teaching of Chihiro Nakao by Bob Emiliani, Rudy Go and Katsusaburo Yoshino. Mr. Nakao was the first Shingijutsu consultant I met and worked with in 1993. Even just one week spent

How Do You Fight A Fire With A Garden Hose?

By Steve Kane - June 19th, 2015

By Steve Kane Many years ago, I was visiting a friend’s house in Southern California. It was a 1950’s ranch style house with a straight walkway from the street to the door. There was a tall palm tree where the walkway met the s

GA 063 | Practical Problem Solving: Part Two with Jon Miller

By Ron Pereira - June 18th, 2015

Press the play button above to listen to the episode. If you’re reading this via email or RSS click the image below to listen to the episode. In the second part of our Practical Problem Solving course, GA Co-Founder Jon Miller an

Own-Process Completion as the Basis of Lean Quality

By Jon Miller - June 15th, 2015

JKK sounds like something that the young people of today might say. Perhaps a text in reaction to hurting another’s feelings, as in “Just kidding, OK?” In fact, it’s one of the lesser known Toyota concepts that

The Value of Uber and Airbnb

By Kevin Meyer - June 12th, 2015

By Kevin Meyer The following is not an advertisement, even if it sounds like it. I will admit I am a big fan of Uber and use the service pretty much anytime I travel. Now that they’re in my relatively small town, I might start us

GA 062 | Lean for the Long Term with Ken Rolfes

By Ron Pereira - June 11th, 2015

Press the play button above to listen to the episode. If you’re reading this via email or RSS click the image below to listen to the episode. Today’s episode features Ken Rolfes, a longtime lean thinker, author, and AME aff

Bootstrap Root Cause Analysis into Your Strategic Thinking

By Jon Miller - June 8th, 2015

I’ve had some interesting differences of opinion lately about if and how root cause analysis fits into an organization’s strategic planning. Both hoshin planning, the strategy deployment method practiced by Toyota and many other le

Month: June 2015