Guest Post: NFL Football and #Lean TAGS: adapt | blitz | blog | christina | coach | consulting | football | guest | kach | lean | learn | liberty mutual | nfl | practice | practitioner | teach | tom brady | toyota Today we have a guest blog post from my friend, fellow Lean practitioner, and fellow blogger Christina Kach. She has been a guest blogger for Lean Blitz in the past, …Continue reading →

What Professional Wrestling Can Teach Us About Performance Optimization TAGS: 5S | andre the giant | brock lesnar | celtic | colonial life arena | columbia | consulting | damien sandow | lean | lean blitz | optimization | performance | practice | professional wrestling | safety | scripted | setup | sheamus | smackdown | south carolina | standardized work | training | warrior | world wrestling entertainment | wwe Recently I attended a professional wrestling event for the first time ever – WWE Smackdown at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, South Carolina. I am not a wrestling fan by …Continue reading →

How Do We Establish A Standardized Process? TAGS: best | blitz | communicate | communication | continuous | customer | documentation | documented | implement | improvement | lean | measure | necessary | note | operations | optimization | paper | post-it note | practice | predict | process | project | require | simplified | six sigma | sports | standardized | sticky | time-based | work I’ve posted a lot recently about the importance of implementing a standardized process – the ability to audit and measure, the ease of implementing improvements across the board, establishment of …Continue reading →

The Masters: Mowing the Fairways TAGS: 2012 | angc | augusta | blade | blitz | bubba watson | cart | club | communication | cut | fairway | golf | grass | hydraulic | leak | lean | maintenance | masters | mow | mower | national | operations | patron | practice | process | sharpen | six sigma | tennis ball | tractor | training When the patrons begin leaving Augusta National Golf Club during the week of the Masters and when the final groups of golfers finish up their rounds or work at the …Continue reading →