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Daily Huddles in Lean Management: Reflect, Plan, Improve

Daily Huddles: Turning Routine Check-Ins into Engines of Continuous Improvement In many organizations, daily huddles are misunderstood. I have seen this firsthand during site visits and coaching...

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Dashboard vs Scorecard Metrics: Maintenance or Improvement?

Maintenance Metrics vs Improvement Metrics: A Critical Distinction in Performance Management One of the most overlooked aspects of performance management is the distinction between maintenance...

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Standard Work, Problem-Solving, and Experimentation: Three Flows Every Organization Must Master Processes exist for one purpose: to deliver value to a customer. Whether that customer is external or...

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Lean Management Systems To Get Better Results

How a Lean Management System Connects People, Processes, and Results When I look back at my time leading the Andersen Management System (AMS) at Andersen Windows beginning in 2008, one insight...

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Tracking of Improvement Ideas Implemented

Ideas Are Free

Ideas Are Free: Building a Self-Sustaining Culture of Continuous Improvement “Ideas Are Free” is more than the title of a book by Alan G. Robinson and Dean Schroeder—it’s a timeless truth. When...

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Idea Cards to improve Process: Safety, Quality, Ease of Doing, Ease of Learning, and Efficiency

Ideas Are Like The Wind

Reading the Improvement Board: Seeing Culture in Action You can’t see the wind—but you can see leaves trembling, branches bending, and trees swaying in a storm. Similarly, you can’t see ideas—but...

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Help Please - Need Lean Management For Business

Regaining Balance in Business and Life Through Lean Principles I recently received a message that stopped me in my tracks. A client, whom I’ll call Brenda, was reaching out with a problem many small...

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Maximizing the Impact of Effective Daily Huddles to Solve Employee Retention and Burnout Issues

Daily Huddles: Turning Routine into a Daily Lever for Performance Daily huddles can be one of the most powerful tools for team alignment, operational awareness, and continuous improvement. But as...

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Idea board overwhelmed with improvement ideas

Did You Just Take Over My Idea?

Keeping Ownership of Continuous Improvement: Lessons from the Frontline Early in my career, I was tasked with designing and operating a new manufacturing value stream. The challenge was clear: take...

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Identification of Ideal Behavior to Get Ideal Results

Daily Huddles: What Does Good Look Like?

Closing the Gap: Driving Effective Daily Huddles Through Behavioral Assessment Recently, a senior leader asked me to provide feedback on their frontline huddles. At first, I felt honored by the...

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Daily Huddles in Lean Management: Reflect, Plan, Improve

Dashboard vs Scorecard Metrics: Maintenance or Improvement?

Looking for better Results? Try This:

Lean Management Systems To Get Better Results

Ideas Are Free

Ideas Are Like The Wind

Help Please - Need Lean Management For Business

Maximizing the Impact of Effective Daily Huddles to Solve Employee Retention and Burnout Issues

Did You Just Take Over My Idea?

Daily Huddles: What Does Good Look Like?

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