Strategic Lean Quality Leader Industrial Electrical Components Manufacturer Worcester, MA (west of Boston) metro area The Ideal Lean Organization When most companies transition to Lean they seldom succeed with the single most critical aspect of their transformation: dumping their existing traditional siloed structure. Very few are actually able to make [...]
Join me as I present at this year's annual Lean Accounting Summit, October 21-22 in Savannah, GA. As always, the Summit will deliver the best principles and practices of lean business management. Register with Promo Code "presenterguest" for 10% off the standard registration fee. My Session Title: Winning Characteristics of [...]
In a recent nationwide survey, amazingly, just 35 percent of American parents indicated they would encourage their children to pursue a career in manufacturing. Are you be surprised? Now imagine your closest friend asks you: "My son wants to consider a career in manufacturing. Should I encourage him?" How would you [...]
Vice President Operations $300 million Global Industrial Manufacturer Southern USA Confidential Executive Search Overview I have begun a confidential executive search for our client’s new Vice President Operations. The company is a leading manufacturer of highly specialized industrial products. Sales are approaching $300 million globally and the company manufactures for [...]
Ron Pereira of Gemba Academy posted a podcast interview we did just a few weeks ago. The primary focus of our discussion is how to hire the right executive to help you jumpstart your company's Lean journey. I've reprinted the key topics list from the Gemba Academy website below. I'd love to get your [...]
Matthew May writes about the new book Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation for American Express OpenForum readers. (from the Archives, 2010) Big Idea: Take Henry David Thoreau's plea to "Simplify, simplify, simplify!" and combine it with what Legendary IBM boss Tom J. Watson, Jr. [...]
Podcast #105 is a conversation with the co-authors of the new book Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation from Productivity Press. They are Adam Zak, a regular guest blogger here on Leanblog.org and Lean-focused executive recruiter and Bill Waddell, a Lean consultant and frequent [...]
This Business901 podcast is a two-part series with Adam Zak. Joe Dager invited Adam to discuss a few of his secrets behind learning about people and engaging them in meaningful dialogue about themselves. (from the Archives, 2013)
Joe Dager of the Business901 podcast interviews Adam Zak about Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation, Adam's new book just out from CRC Press. (from the Archives, 2010) "During the podcast I was able to ask questions on Customer Value, Value Proposition, and Value Streams, subjects that [...]
W. Edwards Deming, who in 1982 started off his 14 Points for Management with this simple proposition: “Create constancy of purpose.” It’s been more than a quarter century since Deming formulated his principles, but his advice has as much meaning today as it did then, a time when we were [...]