Another College Football Cup Defect, This Time in Missouri TAGS: columbia | consulting | defect | football | lean | lean blitz | missouri | operations | process | quality | sports | toldedo | toledo | uni-watch | university We have yet another cup typo at a college football game! This one comes to us from the University of Missouri, where they juuuust missed the correct spelling of Toledo. …Continue reading →

What Professional Wrestling Can Teach Us About Performance Optimization TAGS: 5S | andre the giant | brock lesnar | celtic | colonial life arena | columbia | consulting | damien sandow | lean | lean blitz | optimization | performance | practice | professional wrestling | safety | scripted | setup | sheamus | smackdown | south carolina | standardized work | training | warrior | world wrestling entertainment | wwe Recently I attended a professional wrestling event for the first time ever – WWE Smackdown at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, South Carolina. I am not a wrestling fan by …Continue reading →

A Visit to TEDxColumbiaSC TAGS: blitz | columbia | consulting | continuous improvement | global | grumpy cat | ideas | lean | non-profit | operations | process | sharing | six sigma | south carolina | speakers | sports | spreading | technology | ted | ted conference | ted talks | tedx | tedxcolumbiasc | worth I had the great thrill of attending the TEDx event TEDxColumbiaSC on Monday. For those of you unfamiliar, TED (which stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design) is a non-profit organization …Continue reading →

Kickball Kaizen!! TAGS: adult | ballers | baseball | blitz | co-ed | columbia | consulting | curve | helping young professionals emerge | hype | kaizen | kickball | lean | miami | ohio | operations | piqua | pitching | playoffs | process | six sigma | south carolina | sports | troy | waka | world adult kickball association I love adult kickball, almost to the point of obsession. Combining co-ed athletic competition, a childhood staple, and the social atmosphere after games, I was hooked almost immediately after being …Continue reading →

The Hassle of Rolling Loose Change TAGS: accuracy | augusta | bank of america | banking | branch | break | change | coins | coinstar | columbia | count | dime | efficiency | error-proofing | fee | georgia | lean blitz | lean blitz consulting | loose | machines | maintenance | nickel | operations | penny | poka-yoke | process | quarter | sleeves | south carolina | sports | teller | time savings Rolling loose change is a pretty annoying practice. It’s extremely time consuming, to the point that I simply collect coins in a large tin (or large plastic Coke bottle bank) …Continue reading →

Overproduction, Defects, and How Disney’s “John Carter” Might Flop TAGS: acting | activity | actors | andrew | blitz | box office | columbia | competition | defects | directors | disney | entertainment | execution | filming | films | finding nemo | hollywood | investment | ishtar | john carter | lean | mars | maximize | operations | overproduction | pixar | process | producers | revenues | six sigma | special effects | sports | stanton | studios | wall-e | walt | waste The process of Hollywood movie production has always appeared to work contrary to lean principles. Studios will invest lots of money on talent, technology, time, and marketing for films that …Continue reading →