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So the question is, should you invest your time, energy and money making that idea that hit you in the shower this morning come into existence? Can it really make a difference in your business? There are two easy approaches to evaluating improvement ideas, the first approach is one that I find works well with [...]
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Do you or have you ever had an improvement idea suggestion box for your company? How is it or how did it work out for you? Did you ever really get good ideas? Where you ever able to take any of those good ideas and get them done? The sad thing is that most improvement [...]
Continue Reading →Often times in our businesses it is easier for us to identify when our processes are not working than it is to know how to make them work better. It is not uncommon for people to struggle trying to fix their internal processes. If this sounds like you, checkout the Process Analysis Table below. This [...]
Continue Reading →Do you push a lot of paper in your job? Do you have to process work orders, patient cases, loan documents, or other types of repeating paper work every day or every week? Do you want to make this process more efficient? If you answer yes to all three of these questions then a Lean [...]
Continue Reading →When faced with a problem, there is a simple technique that when applied properly can help you to quickly get to the root cause of the problem and thus identify what needs to be done not only to fix the problem, but prevent the problem from reoccurring. The technique is called The 5 Whys. This [...]
Continue Reading →Have you ever attended a meeting that did not have a clearly defined agenda, seemed to drag-on forever, rambled from topic-to-topic, and ended without any apparent result? All of us have experienced this type of meeting. It is tremendously frustrating and it wastes one of our most valuable resources – our time. Some psychologists believe [...]
Continue Reading →On this week’s show we benchmarked the local, Huntsville Alabama company – Mortgage America. I have been working with Mortgage America since November of 2010 and have great success! The entire branch participates in improving the overall process with the focused goal of completing any mortgage within a 10 day window. Hear about their success [...]
Continue Reading →Below is a “reprint” of the old February 8th LEAN Frog blog that inspired this week’s show: I have a confession – a few times a week I run through a local fast food establishment and grab a sausage biscuit for breakfast. I know, I know, please spare me the lectures I hear them all [...]
Continue Reading →Do you have defined processes in your business? Are the levels of service that you deliver to your customers consistent? Join me Monday, March 14th to learn how to develop sustainable business processes that will set your business apart from competitors through a Lean Tool called Standardized Work.
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