Sliding Head First Into First Base Is A Bad Process With A Risky Result TAGS: base | baseball | blitz | consulting | dive | faster | first | head | injury | lean | mythbusters | physicist | risk | safety | slide Why do players think it’s a good idea to slide head first into first base? The baseball season is barely nine games old and already there have been two injuries …Continue reading →

Roger Clemens and System Failure TAGS: answers | asleep | baseball | blitz | braun | bud | buster | career | culture | dollars | drugs | enhancing | espn | first | fix | juror | league | lean | litigate | major | mistrial | money | olney | operations | ped | performance | play | principle | problems | process | public | quality | roger clemens | ryan | selig | six sigma | sports | steroids | stop | tax | time | toyota way | trial | widespread Yesterday former major league pitcher Roger Clemens was found not guilty on all counts of perjury with respect to the accusation that he lied to and obstructed Congress about his …Continue reading →

Visual Management and Strawberry Jam TAGS: auction | blitz | blog | charity | colored | donate | dots | draft | ebay | first | graban | jam | jars | jelly | lean | leanblog | lukas | management | mark | nfl | operations | paul | pectin | post | process | programming | retweet | round | six sigma | sports | stage | strawberry | sugar | thursday | twitter | uni-watch | visual Every couple of years my mother and I get together to make batches of strawberry jam. She’s made freezer jams for as long as I’ve been alive, and since I’ve …Continue reading →

NFL Draft – Player Names on Jerseys TAGS: 2012 | aerys | arizona | backstage | blitz | cardinals | championship | dame | darren | defect | draft | first | floyd | football | goodell | heyboer | hot | inventory | jersey | league | lean | melissa | michael | national | new york | nfl | notre | operations | personalized | player | press | process | production | rack | roger | round | rovell | scrap | six sigma | sports | thursday | university | waste | wsbt Thursday night featured the first round of the NFL Draft in New York. One of the most notable things about the prime time coverage of the draft was the players …Continue reading →

NCAA Tournament: Is Adding More Teams Better? TAGS: 2012 | basketball | blitz | champion | college | dayton | division I | expansion | first | lean | ncaa | ohio | operations | organization | priority | process | sagarin | six sigma | sports | tournament | usa today In my NCAA Tournament-viewing life, I’ve seen the bracket expand from 48 teams to 64 (with a couple choppy play-in iterations thrown in between), where it remained for many years …Continue reading →

Welcome to Lean Blitz Consulting! TAGS: baseball | baseball winter meetings | blitz | chad walters | first | football | lean | lean blitz | new | november | opening | operations | post | process | six sigma | small business | sports | strategy | welcome My name is Chad Walters, and thank you for visiting Lean Blitz Consulting. Lean Blitz is a blog dedicated to showing you, dear reader, how to be more efficient by using …Continue reading →