It’s All About The People
By: Ronette Kersting The most important Lean discipline is the challenge of creating and sustaining the commitment and engagement of the people doing the work. Mastery of the technical details …
Monkey See…Monkey do
By: Ronette Kersting WHAT IS CULTURE? David Mann describes culture within a work organization to be, “the sum of people’s habits related to how they get their work done. The …
Using A Balanced Scorecard To Manage Performance
By: Susan Walsh, SHRM-SCP Balanced scorecards have been around since the early 1990s with several iterations over the years. A balanced scorecard is often used to manage the strategic objectives …
Everyday Lean…Chasing Waste
By: Ronette Kersting Lean Six Sigma provides numerous resources and tools to enable everyone to Act Decisively, Actively Listen and Take the Customer’s View. These tools can be used to …
Learning To See…Value Stream Mapping
By: Ronette Kersting WHAT IS VALUE STREAM MAPPING? A visual lean tool that helps analyze and optimize an entire process. It is a method …
What Tools Are In Your Toolbox?
By: Ronette Kersting Lean tools are utilized across many industries—from manufacturing to engineering to business resources. Whether you are building a physical product or creating a Lean culture, these tools …
Is the Answer in the Shiny Box
Growing up, one of my grandmother’s favorite shows was The Price is Right. Throughout the show, contestants are offered an opportunity to trade the prize they have in hand for …
The Lean Approach – 5 Principles of Lean
Organizations can utilize the Five Principles of Lean to drive a culture of continuous improvement resulting in improved processes and the elimination of waste. Below is an overview of those five principles …
Six Sigma Overview
What is Six Sigma? The textbook definition of Six Sigma refers to a step-by-step approach designed to reduce the number of errors in a process or product. Anything that produces …
Virtual Reality and Lean…the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Can Virtual Reality (VR) be effectively utilized to help drive Lean transformations? Due to the COVID-19 crisis, nearly every business in every industry has had to adapt to these unprecedented …
