The 2013 #Masters Pin Flag Giveaway TAGS: adam scott | augusta | australia | club | coozie | facebook | free | giveaway | golf | green jacket | guide | lean blitz consulting | marketing | masters | national | pin flag | program | spectator | subscribe | tee | towel | twitter Masters Week here in Augusta has come and gone – a great playoff victory to Adam Scott earns him the green jacket and golf immortality (if such a thing exists). …Continue reading →

NFL Replacement Referee Pulled from Covering Favorite Team’s Game TAGS: allegiance | association | bias | brian stropolo | carolina panthers | check | collective bargaining agreement | consulting | espn | facebook | failure | gambling | lean blitz | lockout | nba | new orleans saints | nfl | official | operations | process | pulled | quality | referee | side judge | sports | tim donaghy It is a basic expectation of sports fans, managers, organizations, and officials that a high-quality game umpire or referee is unbiased to the outcome of matches and to the participants. …Continue reading →

2012 Summer Olympics: Men’s 100M Final on Broadcast Tape Delay & #NBCFail TAGS: 100m | 2008 | 2012 | advertising | america | bbc | beijing | blake | blitz | bolt | broadcast | buffering | cable | canada | consulting | data | espn | facebook | goodwill | lean | london | nbc | nbcolympics.com | olympics | online | operations | permission | process | provider | satellite | social media | sports | subscriptions | summer | tape delay | telegraph | transfer | twitter | uk | united states | usain | viewership | yohan Much has already been made about NBC’s decision to tape-delay the domestic broadcast of popular events at the 2012 London Olympics and how a gulf exists between those American fans …Continue reading →

2012 Summer Olympics: The SPOILER ALERT Olympiad TAGS: 2008 | 2012 | advertising | alert | aly | americans | beijing | blitz | broadcast | cbs | cnbc | communication | computer | consulting | de janeiro | douglas | espn | evening | facebook | franklin | gabby | gabrielle | gold medal | immediate | jordyn | lean | live | lochte | london | michael phelps | missy | nbc | nbc sports network | nbcolympics.com | new york | olympics | operations | process | race | raisman | results | rio | ryan | secrecy | six sigma | spoil | spoiler | sports | suspense | swimming | tape delay | today show | twitter | update | versus | viewership | wieber Yesterday after I posted about Jordyn Wieber being left out of the Olympics women’s gymnastics all-around competition and indicating that Gabby Douglas had won the gold medal, I got a …Continue reading →

Safety, Common Sense, Product Recalls, and Poor Lennox TAGS: agenda | ambiguity | ants | belfast | bison | blitz | blog | bulldog | celebrity | city | cogburn | common | company | consulting | council | diamond | dna | dog | dog warden | domestic | educate | evidence | facebook | facts | feelings | food | foods | foster | french | gaston | gray area | high prairie | honest | huans | humanity | humans | judgment | labrador | lean | legal | lennox | life | lot number | manufacturing | matchbox | minimize | neutral | northern ireland | notice | objectivity | observations | operations | opinions | outbreak | page | pet | peter | petition | philosophy | pink slime | politics | process | processing | production | puppy | recall | relate | rescue | resemble | rob | robinson | rooster | safety | salmonella | save | sense | six sigma | south carolina | spiteful | sports | stillwell | stilwell | subjectivity | supercede | supply | system | taste of the wild | thomas | toyota | tractor | twenty | twitter | venison | victoria | way Through sharing of ideas and content in the Lean Blitz blog, on Facebook, and on Twitter, I do my best to follow some guiding principles and philosophies – present facts …Continue reading →

Worst Case Scenario for All-You-Can-Eat Events TAGS: advance | all you can eat | augusta | AYCE | baseball | batching | blitz | burgers | defects | facebook | feed your face | food | game time | greenjackets | inventory | lean | monday | operations | optimization | performance | postpone | process | rain | rainout | reduction | scrap | six sigma | sports | standardized work | trash | waiting | wasted | wastes | zero I have a more in-depth analysis of this type of event coming later, but a worst-case scenario has come to light today. The Augusta GreenJackets minor league team have introduced …Continue reading →

“I Want Some Nasty!” T-Shirts and Speed to Market TAGS: blitz | city | coach | conference | culture | demand | domestic | duncan | durant | facebook | finals | flex | ginobili | gregg | hot | i want some nasty | lean | merchandise | nba | oklahoma | operations | overseas | parker | planning | pop | popovich | press | production | promo-sa | san antonio | shipping | six sigma | sports | spurs | t-shirts | thunder | transportation | twitter | waoi | westbrook | western I have long since railed against overseas production of merchandise and overproduction of inventory well in advance of the known demand. (Need more evidence?) The San Antonio Spurs have (indirectly) …Continue reading →

State of the Lean Blitz Blog: April 2012 TAGS: activities | alignment | apparel | atlanta | audience | augusta | baseball | baseball winter meetings | basketball | bat | ben hill | blitz | blue | braun | braves | championship | club | cnbc.com | columbus | comments | communication | concessions | consultants | continuous | customer | darren rovell | david schoenfield | dayton | e-book | elmore | email | espn.com | experience | facebook | five whys | followers | football | georgia | giveaway | golf | google | greenjackets | group | hot dog | improvement | jackets | jersey | knowledge | lean | locker room | manufacturing | mascot | masters | merchandise | minor league | moneyball | movie | national | ncaa | notre dame | ohio | operations | pin flag | plus | principles | process | questions | respond | ryan | satisfaction | season | service | seth godin | silver hawks | six sigma | sneezers | Soccer | south bend | sports | sportsbiz | steroids | subscribers | subscriptions | sweetspot | t-shirt | tools | tournament | toyota way | twitter | waste | wastes I figured that since the blog is between 5-6 months old now that I provide a “state of the blog” address – what has changed since the blog first kicked …Continue reading →

Masters Pin Flag Giveaway Ends Tomorrow! TAGS: 2012 | blitz | bubba | efficiency | facebook | free | giveaway | lean | masters | operations | pin flag | process | six sigma | subscribe | twitter | watson Just a reminder that the 2012 Masters pin flag giveaway to subscribers has been extended to tomorrow night at midnight (well, 11:59 p.m.) so if you aren’t already subscribed or …Continue reading →

2012 Masters Pin Flags Giveaways! TAGS: 2012 | augusta | blitz | bubba | club | ebook | facebook | flag | free | giveaway | golf | lean | masters | national | operations | pin | process | signup | six sigma | sports | subscribe | twitter | watson Lean Blitz is giving away a couple of 2012 Masters pin flags and a Baseball Winter Meetings hat – find out how to win here!

The Benefit of Small Innovation Teams TAGS: dunbar's number | facebook | flexibility | google | gsk | harvard business review | lean | malcolm gladwell | small teams Many large companies that formerly used large teams to cultivate and implement innovation are now starting to break those teams down into smaller, tighter, more focused teams. According to the …Continue reading →