ASQ Influential Voices: Quality Applications in Athletics TAGS: aaron hernandez | american | asq | athletics | augusta | baseball | blitz | concessions | consulting | continuous improvement | football | influential | lean | masters | national | notre dame | olympics | operations | pace of game | parking | paul borawski | process | quality | six sigma | society | sports | tickets | vault | voices This month, ASQ CEO Paul Borawski pointed out that the application of quality, while traditionally found in the manufacturing industry, really has a place in every industry and he was …Continue reading →

ASQ Influential Voices: The Value of Appropriate Training TAGS: asq | audit | augusta greenjackets | concessions | consulting | customer | customers | expectations | influential voices | lean | lean blitz | learning | manager | measure | operations | paul borawski | process | quality | sports | training In August, ASQ CEO Paul Borawski penned his thoughts about companies providing training around quality, using data from the Global State of Quality survey to show that companies with centralized …Continue reading →

ASQ Influential Voices: Quality Professionals and Social Media TAGS: american | asq | communities | consulting | feedly | google reader | influential voices | lean | lean blitz | mark graban | matt wrye | old reader | operations | paul borawski | process | quality | quality professionals | ron pereira | social media | society | sports | subpug | tim mcmahon | twitter As a member of the ASQ Influential Voices, I provide a response to a topic/question/general wondering ASQ’s CEO Paul Borawski shares via his blog on a monthly basis. In this month’s blog post, he asks what …Continue reading →

ASQ Influential Voices: Quality Questions & Challenges TAGS: adidas | asq | attendance | consulting | customers | dallas mavericks | dayton dragons | define | defining | expectations | fans | greenville drive | influential voices | jon spoelstra | lean | lean blitz | mark cuban | maverick | measure | measuring | metrics | nike | paul borawski | quality | season tickets | sponsorships | sports | technology | ticket sales | view from the q Happy Day After Independence Day, America! I hope that everyone reading this today had a very smart and safe holiday. As a member of the ASQ Influential Voices, I provide …Continue reading →

Gold’s Gym and a Failure in Quality TAGS: arms | asq | bad | cardio | consulting | core | customer | equipment | exercise | expectations | gold's gym | influential voices | lean | lean blitz | legs | machines | north augusta | plan | quality | south carolina | trainer | workout I’m essentially clueless about physical training. There’s a lot I need to change about my overall physical fitness. I’m a semi-healthy eater when I’m at home, but when it comes …Continue reading →

What is Quality? TAGS: asq | availability | consulting | defects | fitness for use | juran | lean | lean blitz | logo | philip crosby | quality | quality digest | rolex | sam houston state | timepiece | value | watch Because there are quite a few new readers of the Lean Blitz Blog (after the Masters pin flag giveaway and ASQ Influential Voices program participation both boosted viewership and subscribers) …Continue reading →

Lean Blitz Joins the ASQ Influential Voices TAGS: a lean journey | american society for quality | asq | blog | consulting | influential | john priebe | lean | lean blitz | lean blog | mark graban | memorial day | nicole radziwill | paul borawski | quality | sports | tim mcmahon | voices I first started blogging about Lean and quality in late 2011. As I dug into multiple topics – values, activities, tools, applications – I began referencing content and insights from …Continue reading →

The @ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement #WCQI13 TAGS: american | asq | audi | center | conference | consulting | convention | dallas | giveaways | improvement | indiana | indianapolis | innovation | international team excellence award | itea | karen martin | lean | lean blitz | malcolm baldrige | mark graban | podcast | quality | quality of life | sally hogshead | shingo | society | sports | swag | the outstanding organization | trade show | world | young quality professionals | yqp The ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement closed last Wednesday and now that I’m finally back I’m going to cover some of the things I saw and experienced. ~~~~~~~ …Continue reading →

2013 @ASQ World Conference on #Quality and Improvement in Indianapolis – #WCQI13 TAGS: american society for quality | asq | chad walters | indiana convention center | indianapolis | international team excellence awards | itea | lean | lean blitz consulting | sports | wcqi | wcqi13 Greetings from Indianapolis! The American Society for Quality (ASQ) is holding the 2013 World Conference on Quality and Improvement at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, and I am in …Continue reading →

Could the Super Bowl Power Outage Have Been Prevented? TAGS: asq | baltimore | beyonce | blackout | continuous improvement | failure modes effects analysis | fmea | football | game | grid | halftime | john priebe | lean blitz consulting | national football league | nfl | operations | outage | power | prevention | problem solving | process | ravens | root cause analysis | san francisco 49ers | six sigma | sports | super bowl | superdome We’ve all been watching the stories fly in over the last 24-36 hours about the power outage at the Superdome during the Super Bowl, so that won’t get rehashed here. …Continue reading →

Lean Memes Contest Update + ASQ’s Lean Handbook TAGS: adam savage | ame | american society for quality | asq | black belt | body of knowledge | bronze | busted | certification | consulting | continuous improvement | cost reductions | efficiency | error-proof | fact-check | green belt | guide | implementation | jamie hyneman | lean blitz | lean handbook | lean meme | leanblog | mark graban | mythbusters | operations | process | shingo prize | six sigma | sme | sports Last week was the conclusion of the Lean Memes contest organized by Mark Graban at LeanBlog.org. Many great contributions were submitted by many Lean practitioners/amateur comedians (finger pointing squarely at …Continue reading →

Lean is a Revenue Driver TAGS: american | asq | black belt | blower | briggs | certification | constrained | continuous improvement | customer | cycle time | defect | driver | eliminate | engineer | flywheel | lean | lean blitz consulting | lean is | machines | margin | operator | processes | project | quality | revenue | schedule | six sigma | society | standardization | stratton | thomson plastics | time studies | tonnage Lean is obviously a lot more than just elimination of waste activities in processes. It has the power to impact other areas of operations. One of the projects I managed …Continue reading →