Pink NFL Penalty Flags Surprisingly Cause Confusion TAGS: awareness | breast | cancer | confusion | consulting | flag | lean | lean blitz | month | nfl | official | penalty | pink | visual indicators Starting last Thursday, the NFL will bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month the same way they have for the last few years – players, coaches, and officials will sport …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 →

Major League Baseball’s Pace of Play: A Snail-Mail Warning Letter! TAGS: blitz | bud | colorado | commissioner | consulting | ekstrom | innings | joe garagiola jr | july | lean | major league baseball | mike | official | operations | pace of play | process | regulations | rockies | rules | selig | snail mail | sports | up | warming So when we last left off discussing the Major League Baseball pace-of-game regulations, we saw that the league has put an auditing process in place (albeit a questionable one) and …Continue reading →

2012 Summer Olympics: Fencing Technology Glitch TAGS: 2012 | appeal | attack | blitz | britta | cameron smith | consulting | epee | expedited | fail | federation | fencing | german | germany | gold medal | heiderman | individual | lam | lean | london | mechanism | nbc | official | olympics | operations | organization | piste | playing surface | process | protocol | semifinal | shin | shin a lam | silver medal | six sigma | south korea | sporting | sports | systems | technology | timing | touch | yahoo sports Remember what I wrote about processes needing to supercede systems and technology? Failing to do so meant that a chance to win a gold medal was taken away earlier this …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 →