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“He’s got to go! I can’t believe he said that to my customer.” I could almost feel the tension radiating from my client as he told me about his latest employee debacle. His face was red and his foot was tapping. I took a deep breath and asked the question that I already knew the [...]
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Your work environment will either IMPROVE from today’s standard or ERODE. It definitely will not stay the same! That means that if your looking for that stapler today… well, you more than likely will look for it again in the future. When you consider not only our physical work space but also consider the [...]
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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 [...]
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1. Eat the worm – Do the thing you don’t want to do first. When you think about the things you have to do today, what tasks are there that you find yourself already drained just thinking about them – Cold calling potential customers; Addressing an employee issue; Completing that detailed proposal? We all have [...]
Continue Reading →Last week’s show was part one of a three part series on how to use value stream mapping in your company. The intent of this series is to provide listeners with enough information to get started using this tool to improve their business processes. Last week we covered three prerequisites that you need to understand [...]
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Nothing can be more frustrating than going to get something you need and realizing that you are out of the item whether its paper, business cards, cleaning supplies, or expendable tooling. Most small businesses are too small to have a purchasing department or have someone else place orders for us. It’s just one more thing [...]
Continue Reading →HUNTSVILLE, AL – Lean Frog Business Solutions is proud to announce that Fred Kemp has recently joined their team as a business consultant. Fred has over 20 years of senior level management experience in business development, marketing/sales, operations and financial management with Fortune 500 companies. He earned his BBA and MBA from Hofstra University in [...]
Continue Reading →Recently, several of my clients have had outstanding successes. While I am not saying that it was their use of LEAN that drove 100% of their success, I like to think that it is more than coincidence that these small businesses using LEAN are succeeding. So what are some of these small business success stories? [...]
Continue Reading →Once you’ve decided to get your workplace organized using the lean tool 5S (as discussed in prior episodes of our show) you no doubt will come across items that you no longer need or use, but that you feel are just too valuable to throw away. I recommend two approaches to help justify getting rid [...]
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