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.
Census of Manufacturers
Along with the profiles of this year's Industry Week's Best Plants Award, the latest issue includes the latest census data on continuous improvement. Of...
Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, co-author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean
I just got my copy of Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise. Of course, I...
Lean Lessons from Pluto
There are certain things we learn while we grow up that are unquestioned - in fact, unquestionable. There are 26 letters in the alphabet,...
Incrementalism, or Making Change in Small Steps
BusinessWeek wrote about Segway, the wonderfully inventive two-wheel transportation device that was supposed to revolutionize how cities are built. Of course, I don't know...
Denso Growing
Denso, a Toyota supplier, is one of the few automotive suppliers in the US that's growing. Why? One, of course, is that they're very...
Tactics of Lean Innovation
We will be bringing a new class around the country, at least to 4 cities. If you have learned that a lean transformation strategy...
The Machine That Changed the World
As posted by LeanBlog.org founder Mark Graban, there is a new website available that focuses on helping individuals who want to guide their own...
Labor Woes – Just Not the Kind You Think
When people talk about labor, they often focus on unions, disengaged employees and high wages. But there is a much bigger problem facing manufacturers...
Value Stream Mapping Revisited
Mike Rother, an excellent guy and also the guy that brought us all value stream mapping through the book Learning to See, has just...
Customer Focus?
Here's some not-so-interesting news that I believe indicates not being focused on the customer and the subsequent focus on waste elimination. Harley-Davidson is changing...
You Get What You Measure
It is often said "what gets measured gets done." I don't quite believe that, but measurement has a clear impact on behaviors within an...
