A Surge in Major League Baseball Giveaway Defects TAGS: american | blitz | bobblehead | china | consulting | continuous improvement | defect | giveaway | jersey | king soopers | league | lean | major league baseball | mets | miguel cabrera | mvp | national | oops | operations | phillies | process | promotion | sports | troy tulowitzki | truck | tulowizki | w.b. mason Over the last 30 days, there have been at least three significantly notable Major League Baseball giveaway snafus with roots in poor quality. First, the Colorado Rockies celebrated their superstar …Continue reading →

Agile Development and MLB Instant Replay TAGS: agile | arizona fall league | baseball | big league stew | blitz | constraint | consulting | continuous | development | error-proofing | improvement | instant replay | league | lean | major | mark townsend | mlbpa | operations | optimization | process | rob neyer | software | sports | testing | time Earlier this season Major League Baseball announced a planned expansion of instant replay use, similar to concepts applied in college football and the NFL, with the intent of improving the …Continue reading →

Should The NFL Be Worried About The Increase In Player Arrests? TAGS: aaron hernandez | attempted | attendance | college | consulting | football | high school | league | lean | lean blitz | measures | metrics | murder | national | nfl | operations | players | process | safety | san diego | sports Earlier this month I gave two presentations – one was an overview of Lean to a group of call center managers, and the other a deep dive into identifying proper …Continue reading →

The Augusta Riverhawks and the Case for Quality TAGS: augusta | bob kerzner | breakdown | cease | cost of poor quality | cost of quality | hockey | ice | james brown arena | league | lean | lean blitz consulting | minor | operations | riverhawks | sports | system | total productive maintenance | tpm As reported in March, the ice maintenance system at James Brown Arena in Augusta broke down and forced the Augusta RiverHawks minor league hockey team to relocate their games to …Continue reading →

The Miami Marlins and Why Throwing Money At Problems Doesn’t Make Sense TAGS: ame | art byrne | baseball | ceo | consulting | contracts | espn | hoshin kanri | jeffrey loria | league | lean | lean blitz | major | mark graban | marlins | miami | payroll | spending | strategy I’ve piled on the Miami Marlins before (see here and here) but the organization continues to shoot itself in the foot. I won’t get into any more of those details. …Continue reading →

Troy Polamalu, NFL, Concussions, and Cheating the System TAGS: administer | baseline | bears | blitz | blow | brian | cheated | chicago | clinic | commissioner | concussion | consulting | countermeasure | culture | damage | equation | espn | establish | foolproof | football | game | goodell | head | health | hearing | lawsuit | league | lean | mayo | memory | national | nfl | operations | physician | pittsburgh | player | polamalu | priority | process | reflex | retired | roger | safety | six sigma | sport | sports | steelers | strength | success | system | team | test | trainer | trauma | troy | urlacher | vision | vomit The NFL is currently in the midst of a large lawsuit on behalf of retired players who are suing the league for health-related issues caused by on-field concussions during their …Continue reading →

Enforcing Standardized Process & Major League Baseball Pace-of-Game TAGS: activity | agreement | andre | association | audit | bargaining | baseball | baseball tonight | basketball | batter | beckett | blitz | boston | bud | business | cba | chicago cubs | cincinnati | classic | cobb | collective | collective bargaining agreement | consulting | dawson | eric | espn | fantasy | fines | football | game | graban | hits | hours | insider | jonathan | josh | league | lean | lukas | major | mark | measure | mlb | mlbpa | official | operations | pace | padres | papelbon | paul | pete | pitcher | play | players | procedures | process | record | red sox | reds | rose | rotisserie | rules | ryne | san diego | sandberg | selig | show | six sigma | slow | sports | sportscenter | stephen | strasburg | suspensions | ty | umpire | uni-watch | violation | waiting | waste | wgn I first started watching Major League Baseball on television back in 1988 with the Chicago Cubs on WGN. At the time I was just a cursory fan – loved watching …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 →

Video: Rob Neyer’s Mailbag on SBNation TAGS: baseball | believer | blitz | blog | concepts | customer | daydream | dayton | dragons | editor | entertainment | experience | family | implementation | league | lean | mailbag | minor | monkees | music | neyer | operations | process | programming | rob | satisfaction | sbnation | sesame | six sigma | sports | street | twitter | video Rob Neyer, National Baseball Editor for SBNation, shares a video mailbag where he answers readers’ emails. He provides an answer for a question I sent his way about what sports …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 →

Winners of the Masters Pin Flag Giveaway TAGS: 2012 | baseball | blitz | cap | children's hospitals clinics | crosscutters | flags | frontline | giveaway | league | lean | masters | memphis | minor | new era | philadelphia | phillies | pin | six sigma | tennessee | williamsport | winter meetings We have winners in the Masters pin flag giveaway! The winner from the email subscriber pool is Gabe Sincropi, Jr., the Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations for the …Continue reading →