2013 BCS National Championship and Silly Rules About Parking TAGS: 2013 | alabama | bcs | blitz | championship | college | consulting | continuous improvement | crimson tide | discover | florida | football | game | irish | lean | miami | national | notre dame | operations | overprocessing | parking | pass | process | radio | rules | six sigma | sports | sun life stadium | tailgate | traffic | will call As a lifelong lover of all things Notre Dame (for example, using them as examples in previous articles), I cannot put into words my level of excitement for the 2013 …Continue reading →

Toyota Way Principle #10, Notre Dame Football, and RKG’s TAGS: arnold | athletes | big skill | blitz | brian | central | character | charlie | cincinnati | cohesive | consistency | constancy | consulting | dame | emotional | fightin' | fighting | football | grand | guy | irish | joe bolden | keith | kelly | kind | kinda | lean | mental | merits | michigan | nbc | notre | operations | penn state | people | philosophy | players | power | principle | process | prototype | recruiting | right | rivals | rkg | scouting | six sigma | skill | specifications | sports | staff | state | style | success | toyota | turnover | university | valley | way | weis | wolverines (This is part of a series of posts examining the 14 principles of The Toyota Way. Today we look at The Toyota Way principle 10.) We’ve already dissected how the University …Continue reading →

Case Study: University of Notre Dame Football Locker Room “Deep Clean” TAGS: 5S | autonomous management | basic conditions | bcs championship | boston college | bowl game | brian kelly | captain | cleaning | continuous improvement | deep clean | espn | flu | football | harrison smith | head coach | infected | irish | kitchen | lean | locker room | notre dame stadium | processes | standards | stephon tuitt | tpm | university of notre dame | wastes | weight room While this is slightly old news now that the college football season comes to a close tonight with the BCS Championship Game, the University of Notre Dame football team experienced …Continue reading →