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.
Leading Lean August – Observing Work
Also from the August issue of Assembly Magazine is my latest column of Leading Lean. The topic this month is the key issue of...
Dreaming Lean – as in Dreamliner
Here is an article from Assembly Magazine by Adam Cort about Boeing's Dreamliner called Living the Dream.
Boeing has been working on lean for a...
Great Books You Didn’t Know Were About Lean
Although my book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road, is very much about lean, I particularly enjoy finding lessons on lean...
Lean Lessons from History: Pursuit of Perfection
Few would argue that lean is about an journey to the ideal state, towards perfection. It's a continuous, never ending journey. This is quite...
Building Near Your Customers
By Jamie Flinchbaugh
Mark recently posted about Building Near Your Customers. Here's another reason - your product might end up at the bottom of the...
Great Books You Didn’t Know Were About Lean
There are many books that are not at all about lean, but the lessons they contain are very helpful to a lean journey. Here's...
Demand Stream Mapping?
Getting lean right is more than just ideas. Here's an article on demand stream mapping that I was actually interviewed for. Don't know what...
Lean is dead?
I know that you can say whatever you want in the press, particularly if you're trying to sell this, but I couldn't believe I...
Great Books You Didn’t Know Were About Lean
There are many books that are not at all about lean, but the lessons they contain are very helpful to a lean journey. Here's...
GM and Toyota?
Here's one blogger adding speculation to the fire (speculation is a very flammable fuel, if you didn't know). I find this line amusing:we have...
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering
A couple months ago, Mark commented on the unraveling of the mystery of Raytheon's Swanson's The Unwritten Rules of Management. This book got incredible...
On the Shoulders of Giants
SME's Manufacturing Engineering magazine has a very special annual feature called the Masters of Manufacturing. This year they have selected Joseph Engelberger, considered the...
