Jamie Flinchbaugh
Jamie Flinchbaugh is an accomplished Entrepreneur, Senior Executive, and Board Member with more than 20 years of success spanning finance, manufacturing, automotive, and management consulting. Leveraging extensive operational experience, Jamie is an invaluable asset for a company seeking expert guidance with process improvements, lean strategies, and leadership coaching in order to transform operations, reduce costs, and drive profitability. His areas of expertise include continuous improvement, entrepreneurship, coaching and training, process transformation, business strategy, and organizational design.
Book Review +: Profit Beyond Measure
By Jamie FlinchbaughOne of the most underrated voices in the "lean" world is Tom Johnson. I still regularly recommend his latest book, now 6...
Future Leaders from the Ranks of our Colleges and Universities
by Jamie FlinchbaughI'm not sure if this has much to do with lean, other than to say that business leaders are needed to make...
Leading Lean: PDCA
In my Assembly Magazine monthly column Leading Lean, I chose to address in December one of my favorite topics, PDCA or Plan-Do-Check-Act. This is...
Secrets to Success from Phil Gordon
Recently I was giving a speech and had to follow Phil Gordon, famous poker pro and host of Celebrity Poker Showdown. Needless to say,...
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean ON SALE!
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers is offering a special holiday sale on their best-seller for 2006, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the...
Smashing the Clock: Getting Rid of Time Standards
The cover story this week in Business Week is called Smashing the Clock. It is the story of Best Buy's removal of all expectations...
Lean Should be Better Supported by HR
Dr. Monica Tracey of Oakland University's Pawley Institute and I have published another article on our original research on lean and HR. This one...
New book building on TQM: Breakthrough Management
There is a new book on TQM available. I have not bought the book yet but my assumption is that it builds on TQM....
Leading Lean One Heart at a Time
Another month has rolled by whch means Assembly Magazine has released another excellent issue of their magazine, of which I am very pleased to...
Event Lean versus Genuine Lean
There is a topic that I have found myself talking about more and more lately. Perhaps the reason is that many of my speeches...
You are here! The importance of the current state
First, if you've read The Hitchhiker 's Guide to Lean, you will know that we believe the entire concept of deeply understanding our current...
Addendum to Census of Manufacturers
I have something else to add to my earlier post on the state of lean through the eyes of an Industry Week survey. My...
