Mark Edmondson
Mark Edmondson is passionate about achieving rapid, breakthrough results during a company’s lean transformation. With 30 years of front-line experience while working with over 80 companies, Mr. Edmondson developed a philosophy of helping companies create a culture that sustains operational excellence through low cost yet transformative changes.
First the V-Pill; Now it’s the V-Chain
Article LinkBy Mark Edmondson Do you experience lumpy product demand? Do you suffer from "outsourced manufacturing and third-party logistics across a multi-enterprise network"?...
Lean and Outsourcing
By Mark Edmondson Bill Waddell's post on Evolving Excellence makes a humorous yet tragic point about how lean is too often confused with outsourcing....
Lean Consumption at the Post Office
By Mark Edmondson Today I went to the local post office to buy holiday stamps and Priority Mail boxes. (An aside: Priority...
Encounters with Peter Drucker
From Mark Edmondson:Peter F. Drucker passed away on November 11, eight days before his 96th birthday. Since he was a professor at Claremont Graduate...
First improvement: Your own management system.
Just as your product value streams require brilliant processes to deliver value, your management team also requires...
Lean or Six Sigma?
In his article "Putting Six Sigma in Perspective", Michael Hammer uses the mantra:"Use the right tool for the right problem". An excerpt that summarizes...
Two Common HR Practices That Sabotage Lean Initiatives
Our consulting firm has two HR requirements before we'll work with a client:1. No regular employee will lose their job as a result of...
