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• Lean helps save lives in South Africa
• OEE | Overall Equipment Effectiveness Explained with example
• Various Problem Solving Techniques
• Three Warning Signs Your Process Improvement Effort Will Fail
• When Finger-Pointing Is a Good Thing
• LABP’s Biggest Gift Is Time
• Where’s the Value in Your Business Processes?
• Putting 5S to Work in the Business Office
• Optimizing Without Balance—A Vicious Cycle
• Variation in Your Processes—A Game of Chance (Part One of Two)
• Cut the Noise and Tame the Common Cause (Part Two of Two)
• Are You Marching to the Beat of the Wrong Drum?
• Go Faster, Produce More—but with Integrity
• The Function of Leaders is to Produce More Leaders
• Complexity is a Crude State, Simplicity Marks the End of a Process of Refinement
• There is No Right Answer in Strategy
• Amazon Enters Banking
• Strategy in a Time of Explosive Change
• The Power of One Page
• Toyota’s New Rivals & ‘ Life and Death Battle’
• Singapore FinTech Festival & the Shape of Things to Come
• Is Five Why Analysis Too Simplistic for Complex Problems?
• The Trouble with Corporate Clichés
• Digital Transformation – the Critical Questions
• Design Thinking and the PDCA Cycle
• If It’s Not Simple, It’s BS
• Scatter – Our Nemesis
• Neither Too Rigid, Nor Too Loose
• The Four Levels of Visual Management
• The Four Levels of Visual Management, Part 2
• Lean Hotels
• Visual Management in New Product Development
• Lean, Leadership & Ethics, Part 1
• What is Courage & How does it relate to True North?
• Needs-based, outcome-oriented, continuous, open
• Martin, this one’s for you
• Takeaways from Boston and Berlin
• Agendashift roundup, May 2019
• Five public Agendashift workshops this autumn: Stockholm, Athens, London, Istanbul, Berlin
• At last! Featureban 3.0 and Changeban 1.2
• Visualising Agendashift: The why and how of outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation
• Agendashift roundup, June 2019
• How Agendashift scales
• What scales up should scale down
• 8 Wastes of Lean Manufacturing Explained with Pictorial Example
• All about Lean Manufacturing | Lean Process | Lean Production
• Low Hanging Fruit
• PDCA Cycle | Continuous Improvement Cycle | You should use this technique at your workplace for Improvement
• Lean At Home – Laundry
• Repeatability vs Reproducibility
• Different Sources and Types of Variation in Measurement System
• All about MSA [Measurement System Analysis] | A Quality Core Tool
• Perform your own Gauge R&R Study in just 6 Easy Steps with Excel Templates
• Manufacturing Visual System/Paperless Manufacturing
• All Information about FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis)
• Make your own Process FMEA in just 10 easy steps
• 8D Problem Solving Methodology with Excel Template
• Top 26 Lean Manufacturing Tools
• SixSigmaStats offers online instructor led Machine Learning(Entry level & Advance), Six Sigma and RPA (Blue Prism or UI Path) by industry experts and working professionals
• One Piece Flow| Continuous Flow | Single Piece Flow
• We Need to Stop Using the Lean Safety Cross – it hurts people
• Six Sigma | DMAIC Methodology | Types of Belts in Six Sigma
• Six Techniques of Poka-Yoke | Mistake Proofing | Error Proofing
• Simply Calculate Your Overall Equipment Effectiveness [OEE] Explained by Easy Example
• All about SPC | Statistical Process Control | Quality Core Tool
• How would you make this FIFO? Each rack has a different filter.
• Perform Process Capability Study [Cp Cpk Study] with Excel Template in easy 4 steps
• Takt Time Vs Cycle Time illustrated with simple examples and learn about NVA
• All about Lean Six Sigma
• Webinar: Addressing Problems With Scrum
• The key purpose of Agile Release Planning
• Why dwell on the basics of Scrum?
• Why Should You Take Our Agile Release Planning Workshop?
• Our Scaling Workshop – What and Why?
• Renewing your certification / Furthering your education
• ScrumMaster: No Power
• What should I do if I cannot get a real Team?
• What do I do with a Distributed Team?
• ScrumMaster vs Agile Coach
• Lean Startup Conference 2019 — Call for Sponsors
• Bringing Biotech To The Masses
• Pivoting to Put Customers First
• Innovating the Writing Process: How Change Is Coming to the Publishing World
• Call For Speakers: Submit Your Proposal by Friday, June 21
• The Realities Facing Female Founders
• Using Lean To Decrease Youth Unemployment In South Africa And Beyond
• How One Guy From a Large Insurance Firm Added Millions to the Bottom Line with Lean Startup
• Conference Speaker Andy Rachleff on his 35 years in Silicon Valley, Wealthfront, and the power of telling stories
• Why Ann Miura-Ko is “the Most Powerful Woman in Startups”
• Fertile ground for lean seeds
• Reflecting on our lean healthcare journey
• What sustainability looks like
• Determination pays
• My father is my sensei
• Introducing the Toyota Flow System
• The synergies you need to succeed
• Cancelling the distance
• Kaizen in Africa: a trip to Tunisia
• A Norwegian lean epic
• Mixed Model Sequencing – Just Make the Problem Go Away
• Mixed Model Sequencing – Adjust Capacity
• Mixed Model Sequencing – Basic Example Introduction
• Mixed Model Sequencing – Basic Example Workload and Buffering
• Mixed Model Sequencing – Basic Example Sequencing
• Mixed Model Sequencing – Complex Example Introduction
• Mixed Model Sequencing – Complex Example Data Basis
• Mixed Model Sequencing – Complex Example Sequencing 1
• Takt Time On Unsteady Work
• Our Lean Whiskey Debut [[Episode 1]]
• Practicing Lean Podcast Now Available
• Culture Change Begins With Naming Behaviors
• Upcoming Lean Speaking Engagement
• Lean Whiskey [Episode 2]
• Delegating Improvement
• Observe with Purpose [[From the Archives]]
• Leadership with a Capital ‘Lee’
• Lean Whiskey [Episode 4]
• The One Thing That Almost Messed Up the First Moon Landing 50 Years Ago
• Measures of Success Related to “Measures of Success” Workshops
• Podcast #344 – David B. Reid, P.E., Lean & Kaizen Across Chick-fil-A Stores
• Operational Excellence Mixtape: July 5, 2019
• A Lack of Standardized Calendars Contributes to my Scheduling Mistake
• Embracing and Helping Surgeons Accept Change — Instead of Blaming & Labeling Them
• Episode #4 of the “Lean Whiskey” Podcast: Nikka, Performance Reviews, KPIs, and an Interrupting Cat
• Leadership as Defined and Depicted so Well by a Normandy War Memorial
• Operational Excellence Mixtape: Best of 2019 – Mixtape A-Side
• Standard Work for Solving Crossword Puzzles
• GA 273 | Lean as a Management System with Skip Steward
• Six-month Reflection Questions
• GA 274 | Retiring from a Lean Career with George Saiz
• The Guessing Game of Lean Leadership
• GA 275 | Leading vs. Serving with Sarah Tilkens
• More Ways to Dig Deeper Using Five Questions
• The Lean Leader as Player-Coach
• GA 276 | Using Lean to Enrich Lives with Ben van Asselt
• Lean Manufacturing Thoughts: Lean Manufacturing Rocks!
• Lean Production and Lean Manufacturing
• Lean & Your Computer…a Lesson in PM, Waste & Continuous Improvement
• How to Make Lean Manufacturing Successful and “Stick”: Thoughts for Top Management
• Understanding Takt Time – Guest Post
• Introduction to Lean Manufacturing