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Merry Christmas!

By Ron Pereira - December 24th, 2010

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Safe New Year!   And if you haven’t already heard  it, I’d recommend you check out “Gemba Clause” over at the Lean Blog!  Enjoy and God Bless!

10,000 Subscribers – THANK YOU!

By Ron Pereira - September 17th, 2010

I am not a big blog stats guy… I used to be.  I’d check how many people visited the blog every other hour of the day!  Eventually I realized how much time I wasted doing this! But one stat I do follow since, at least to m

A Major Announcement That You’ve Made Possible

By Ron Pereira - August 30th, 2010

My life changed – more than I could have ever imagined – Sunday evening, January 14, 2007. You see it was on this day that I wrote my first blog article. I remember wondering if anyone would read it? I actually just re-read

LSS Academy Now on LinkedIn

By Ron Pereira - April 12th, 2010

I’m happy to announce that LSS Academy is now on LinkedIn. We’ll obviously continue to roll strong here on the blog… but there seems to be something something special about LinkedIn when it comes to generating buzz ab

Gemba Tales: Lean stories, lessons and reflections

By Ron Pereira - February 9th, 2010

Over the last year several new lean and six sigma related blogs have appeared.  I follow most of them.   Some I like more than others… which is to be expected I guess. Anyhow, one of the newer blogs that has definitely caught

The 18 Most Active LSS Academy Articles in 2009

By Ron Pereira - December 21st, 2009

I recently wrote about the most read LSS Academy articles in 2009. Now, in this post, I’d like to share with you the LSS Academy articles that garnered the most comments in 2009. As you’ll see some of these posts are quite

Top 10 LSS Academy Articles in 2009 (Pageviews)

By Ron Pereira - December 17th, 2009

According to Google Analytics readers from 177 different countries and/or territories visited LSS Academy in 2009. That is beyond humbling. Never, in my wildest dreams, did I imagine such as thing would be possible when I sat down a fe

New Lean Blog

By Ron Pereira - September 24th, 2009

Jamie Flinchbaugh is not really new to the lean blogosphere as he’s been writing over on the Lean Blog and most recently on Evolving Excellence… but I am excited to see him finally start his own blog. So, please be sure to

Lean Blog Update

By Ron Pereira - February 28th, 2008

Our friend, Mark, over at the Lean Blog is battling some technical difficulties.  He is working hard to fix things. 

What is RSS?

By Ron Pereira - February 17th, 2008

I’ve been asked by a few folks what the funny looking blue icon on my front page was all about. So, let’s take a break from lean and six sigma and talk about the wonders of RSS. The Good Old Days In the old days when we wanted

The Power of 3

By Ron Pereira - July 14th, 2007

One of my favorite “blogging” sites is Daily Blog Tips.  On it Daniel shares all kinds of good ideas for those of us who attempt to blog.  Recently Daniel held a contest where the participants had to simply use “3&#

My Top 5 Blogging Mistakes

By Ron Pereira - July 1st, 2007

I have been blogging for around 6 months now.  It’s safe to say I am hooked.  With this said, after some hansei, I have formulated the top 5 blogging mistakes I have made thus far.  If you are thinking of blogging, or are ve

Calling all Bloggers!

By Ron Pereira - May 30th, 2007

One of the ideas I have been tossing around is inviting others interested in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement in general to “guest blog” here at LSS Academy.  So if you are a Blogger wanting to co

WordPress Rocks!

By Ron Pereira - May 30th, 2007

When I first transitioned this blog over to WordPress (WP) I wondered if I had made a terribe mistake.  Blogger was so easy to use and format.  You can drag and drop things to your hearts desire.  This was gone when I went to a sel

Bloggers Unite in Keller Texas

By Ron Pereira - April 1st, 2007

Since starting Lean Six Sigma Academy I have been fortunate enough to form many new friends. Perhaps the most interesting friendship I have made is with one of the “giants” of the Lean blogosphere, Mark Graban. Mark and I live in t

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