Posted by business901 on April 25, 2011
Posted by business901 on April 18, 2011
Is Lean anything more than a Hypothesis? Dr Jim Womack: “The life of lean is experiments. All authority for any sensei flows from experiments on the gemba [the place where work takes place], not from dogmatic interpretations of sacred texts or the few degrees of separation from the founders of the movement. In short, lean is not a religion but a daily practice of conducting experiments and accumulating knowledge.”
Listen to Dr. Womack discuss Lean in the first part of a two part podcast Part 2 of the podcast will be next Tuesday. We discussed his new book Gemba Walks
and many of the problems in implementing Lean.
Dr. Womack is the founder of and senior advisor to the Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc., a nonprofit training, publishing, conference, and management research company chartered to advance a set of ideas known as lean production and lean thinking.
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Posted by business901 on April 11, 2011
These questions may get answered for you when you listen to this podcast.
- Do you think Lean can be applied to Sales and Marketing?
- Do you think Sales and Marketing departments resist becoming Lean?
- How important is Lean to Sales and Marketing?
- Or, how important is Sales and Marketing to Lean?
Erik Haberkern, a General Sales Manger of a global Fortune 300 chemical company discusses the application of Lean in Sales sand Marketing. Eric first worked as a Facility Manager and soon became a Lean Deployment Manager. He transferred those skills to Sales and Marketing. Eric’s credentials are best described in comments by his colleagues: 
- Erik is a true professional in every sense of the word! He helped complete the most successful acetylene Lean project at the Roseville, MN facility.
- Erik's leadership skills are second to none, and he uses these skills to motivate and inspire the people around him. He also understands how to work within a team, to get the most out of the people, and to utilize their strengths in the role to which they belong.
- Among his greatest strengths are his abilities to work with people at all levels within an organization, effective leadership style in motivating others to deliver results, and his promotion of accountability through taking action.
As you listen to the podcast, you can see how true these comments are. Erik follows a very structured team approach in implementing Lean filled with a whole bunch of We’s and few if any I’s, a consummate team player. Eric can be found on LinkedIn.
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Posted by business901 on April 4, 2011
I had the pleasure of discussing the mission and expertise of the Juran Institute, Inc. with their CEO, Joe DeFeo. The Institute provides research and pragmatic solutions to enable organizations from any industry to lean the tools and techniques for managing quality and performance excellence. As a result of this discussion, I think you will take away some different views on the subject of quality and how they apply to your organization. This is not quality for the sake of quality. This is quality for the sake of business improvement. 
The Juran's Quality Handbook: The Complete Guide to Performance Excellence 6/e
, was co-authored by Joe DeFeo and the late Dr. Joseph M. Juran. This authoritative resource shows how to apply universal methods for delivering superior results and organizational excellence in any organization, industry, country or process. In the podcast, Joe will give two people the opportunity to win a copy of the handbook.
P.S. What do you talk about before a podcast begins? I left some beginning remarks. I have to correct our statement in the beginning, WKRP was in Cincinnati.
Upcoming Events: Juran is conducting blended Lean Six Sigma workshops for Green Belt and Black Belt certification beginning in April 2011. The workshops begin with required online independent study of e-learning modules. The estimated 24 hours of independent study must be completed by the start of the onsite, instructor-led portion of the workshop. The onsite workshop training, held in Southbury, Connecticut, will expand upon the topics covered in the e-learning modules. Training will be interactive with group case study exercises, problem analysis and statistics practice. Here is a list of all the workshops Juran currently has scheduled for 2011:
To register, or for more information, please call 800-338-7726, or email Tina@juran.com.
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