Guest Post: What #Lean Can Learn from Sports TAGS: basketball | boston | boston marathon | catch careers | christina kach | curling | field | golf | guest post | lean | lean blitz consulting | sme lean bronze certified | softball | sports | stephen colbert | track I am again off to the ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement in Indianapolis, so today we have a guest blog post from my friend, fellow Lean practitioner, and …Continue reading →

Articles After a Long Layoff TAGS: batteries | beach | blitz | blog | blogging | catch careers | christina kach | coffee | consulting | continuous improvement | control | creamer | easier | hack | hammock | healthcare | lean | leanblog | leanmemess | life | lifehacker | mark graban | meme | networking | non-traditional | operations | process | remote | six sigma | sports | starbucks | vacation | velcro | vessel I concede that my lack of sharing new information over the last couple of weeks has allowed for a slight mental decompression – there have been a lot of new …Continue reading →

Entries from the Lean Memes Contest TAGS: 5 whys | 5S | aliya mustafina | allie brosh | approach | asian father | bad | batman | but we've always done it this way | catch careers | cheezburger | christina kach | consulting | contest | continuous improvement | cousin | creepy little girl | dating site | detect | eel | employee | execution | first world problems | five whys | fonzie | graban | gymnast | half | happy cat | high expectations | hyperbole | improvement | jidoka | kaizen event | key | koala | lame joke | lame pun raccoon | lean | lean blitz | leanblog | leanmemes | manufacturing lines | mark | meme | memegenerator | memes | moa | moar | murderer | olympics | operations | overly attached girlfriend | pdca | pdsa | phone | plan do check act | plan do study adjust | point of use storage | poka-yoke | priest | priorities | process | quickmeme | root cause analysis | safety | set in order | seven | shine | shotgun approach | signal | six sigma | sort | soviet russia | suggestion box | utility belt | value stream management Lean consultant, author, and notable public speaker Mark Graban of LeanBlog.org has started a web collection of Lean-related memes at Lean Memes. He’s hosting a contest for his readers to …Continue reading →