ASQ Influential Voices: Quality Professionals and Social Media TAGS: american | asq | communities | consulting | feedly | google reader | influential voices | lean | lean blitz | mark graban | matt wrye | old reader | operations | paul borawski | process | quality | quality professionals | ron pereira | social media | society | sports | subpug | tim mcmahon | twitter As a member of the ASQ Influential Voices, I provide a response to a topic/question/general wondering ASQ’s CEO Paul Borawski shares via his blog on a monthly basis. In this month’s blog post, he asks what …Continue reading →

The 2013 #Masters Pin Flag Giveaway TAGS: adam scott | augusta | australia | club | coozie | facebook | free | giveaway | golf | green jacket | guide | lean blitz consulting | marketing | masters | national | pin flag | program | spectator | subscribe | tee | towel | twitter Masters Week here in Augusta has come and gone – a great playoff victory to Adam Scott earns him the green jacket and golf immortality (if such a thing exists). …Continue reading →

Madden ’13 With Wrong Player Picture TAGS: 13 | calvin johnson | cover | defensive tackle | denver broncos | detroit lions | ea sports | lean blitz consulting | madden | marcus thomas | megatron | national football league | nfl | oops | operations | picture | process | running back | six sigma | sports | twitter | university of florida | update | utep | wrong The newest edition of the EA Sports Madden NFL video game, Madden ’13, came out on Tuesday. Generally football fans, gamers, and players alike are over-the-top excited about the release …Continue reading →

Dirk Hayhurst on Positive Banned Substance Results TAGS: author | ball four | banned substance | blog | blogger | bullpen gospels | business | coach | dirk hayhurst | disrespect | garfoose | ignorance | jim bouton | lean blitz consulting | major league baseball | manager | marcus stroman | meetings | mlb | operations | organization | out of my league | ped | performance enhancing drugs | process | six sigma | sports | standardized | tampa bay rays | toronto blue jays | twitter | work | writer Full disclosure: I am a big Dirk Hayhurst fan. Dirk is a former Major League pitcher (who is presumably trying to get back to the bigs), but is probably better …Continue reading →

2012 Summer Olympics: Men’s 100M Final on Broadcast Tape Delay & #NBCFail TAGS: 100m | 2008 | 2012 | advertising | america | bbc | beijing | blake | blitz | bolt | broadcast | buffering | cable | canada | consulting | data | espn | facebook | goodwill | lean | london | nbc | nbcolympics.com | olympics | online | operations | permission | process | provider | satellite | social media | sports | subscriptions | summer | tape delay | telegraph | transfer | twitter | uk | united states | usain | viewership | yohan Much has already been made about NBC’s decision to tape-delay the domestic broadcast of popular events at the 2012 London Olympics and how a gulf exists between those American fans …Continue reading →

2012 Summer Olympics: The SPOILER ALERT Olympiad TAGS: 2008 | 2012 | advertising | alert | aly | americans | beijing | blitz | broadcast | cbs | cnbc | communication | computer | consulting | de janeiro | douglas | espn | evening | facebook | franklin | gabby | gabrielle | gold medal | immediate | jordyn | lean | live | lochte | london | michael phelps | missy | nbc | nbc sports network | nbcolympics.com | new york | olympics | operations | process | race | raisman | results | rio | ryan | secrecy | six sigma | spoil | spoiler | sports | suspense | swimming | tape delay | today show | twitter | update | versus | viewership | wieber Yesterday after I posted about Jordyn Wieber being left out of the Olympics women’s gymnastics all-around competition and indicating that Gabby Douglas had won the gold medal, I got a …Continue reading →

ESPN Outside the Lines: “What’s Lurking In Your Stadium Food?” TAGS: ballpark | blitz | cleaning | concession | consulting | defects | department | droppings | espn | food | health | indianapolis | lavigne | lean | mice | negligence | operations | optimization | organization | paula | principles | process | spoil | spoilage | sports | stadium | stand | standardized | super bowl | twitter | violations | what's lurking in your stadium food A couple years back ESPN’s Paula Lavigne came out with a startling report about some of the health department findings in various concession stands at major ballparks and stadiums across …Continue reading →

Safety, Common Sense, Product Recalls, and Poor Lennox TAGS: agenda | ambiguity | ants | belfast | bison | blitz | blog | bulldog | celebrity | city | cogburn | common | company | consulting | council | diamond | dna | dog | dog warden | domestic | educate | evidence | facebook | facts | feelings | food | foods | foster | french | gaston | gray area | high prairie | honest | huans | humanity | humans | judgment | labrador | lean | legal | lennox | life | lot number | manufacturing | matchbox | minimize | neutral | northern ireland | notice | objectivity | observations | operations | opinions | outbreak | page | pet | peter | petition | philosophy | pink slime | politics | process | processing | production | puppy | recall | relate | rescue | resemble | rob | robinson | rooster | safety | salmonella | save | sense | six sigma | south carolina | spiteful | sports | stillwell | stilwell | subjectivity | supercede | supply | system | taste of the wild | thomas | toyota | tractor | twenty | twitter | venison | victoria | way Through sharing of ideas and content in the Lean Blitz blog, on Facebook, and on Twitter, I do my best to follow some guiding principles and philosophies – present facts …Continue reading →

“I Want Some Nasty!” T-Shirts and Speed to Market TAGS: blitz | city | coach | conference | culture | demand | domestic | duncan | durant | facebook | finals | flex | ginobili | gregg | hot | i want some nasty | lean | merchandise | nba | oklahoma | operations | overseas | parker | planning | pop | popovich | press | production | promo-sa | san antonio | shipping | six sigma | sports | spurs | t-shirts | thunder | transportation | twitter | waoi | westbrook | western I have long since railed against overseas production of merchandise and overproduction of inventory well in advance of the known demand. (Need more evidence?) The San Antonio Spurs have (indirectly) …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 →

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 →

State of the Lean Blitz Blog: April 2012 TAGS: activities | alignment | apparel | atlanta | audience | augusta | baseball | baseball winter meetings | basketball | bat | ben hill | blitz | blue | braun | braves | championship | club | cnbc.com | columbus | comments | communication | concessions | consultants | continuous | customer | darren rovell | david schoenfield | dayton | e-book | elmore | email | espn.com | experience | facebook | five whys | followers | football | georgia | giveaway | golf | google | greenjackets | group | hot dog | improvement | jackets | jersey | knowledge | lean | locker room | manufacturing | mascot | masters | merchandise | minor league | moneyball | movie | national | ncaa | notre dame | ohio | operations | pin flag | plus | principles | process | questions | respond | ryan | satisfaction | season | service | seth godin | silver hawks | six sigma | sneezers | Soccer | south bend | sports | sportsbiz | steroids | subscribers | subscriptions | sweetspot | t-shirt | tools | tournament | toyota way | twitter | waste | wastes I figured that since the blog is between 5-6 months old now that I provide a “state of the blog” address – what has changed since the blog first kicked …Continue reading →

Masters Pin Flag Giveaway Ends Tomorrow! TAGS: 2012 | blitz | bubba | efficiency | facebook | free | giveaway | lean | masters | operations | pin flag | process | six sigma | subscribe | twitter | watson Just a reminder that the 2012 Masters pin flag giveaway to subscribers has been extended to tomorrow night at midnight (well, 11:59 p.m.) so if you aren’t already subscribed or …Continue reading →

2012 Masters Pin Flags Giveaways! TAGS: 2012 | augusta | blitz | bubba | club | ebook | facebook | flag | free | giveaway | golf | lean | masters | national | operations | pin | process | signup | six sigma | sports | subscribe | twitter | watson Lean Blitz is giving away a couple of 2012 Masters pin flags and a Baseball Winter Meetings hat – find out how to win here!

LinkedIn’s Version of the Fail Whale TAGS: blitz | break | burst | construction | copier | crash | fail | fix | lean | linkedin | maintenance | operations | order | out | pipe | process | server | six sigma | temporarily | twitter | under | whale You know about the Fail Whale on Twitter, right? If you don’t know, when Twitter gets overloaded with data transmission requests (lots of people using/checking/updating Twitter at one time) the …Continue reading →