Tag: Bodek

People often say Lean is pretty simple (or that it's just "common sense"). Yeah, some of the concepts are simple... but sometimes deceptively so....

Last Thursday, Joe Swartz and I presented about "Kaizen Coaching" at the annual Shingo Institute Conference. In the start of our breakout session, I made...

There's a great piece, currently available for free on the HBR website, about continuous improvement: The Culture to Cultivate The author, George Halvorson, is the recently...

Joining me once again for episode #176 is my mentor and good friend Norman Bodek, who has been a guest many times here. Today, we are talking about his latest book, The Harada Method: The Spirit of Self-Reliance.

The team at KaiNexus (where I am the "chief improvement officer") is always improving. I want to share a few of these improvements, as...

There are many articles written about collaborative "ideation" systems (sometimes referred as "crowdsourcing") - web and software systems that allow ideas to bubble up...

Saw this in the most recent Fast Company:   Is Your Manager A Creativity Killer? If the manager is something like a case study from...

My co-author, Joe Swartz, and I did a soft launch a few weeks back, but we're happy to announce that the full website for...

Episode #141 is a chat with Norman Bodek, as he shares his recollections of working with Taiichi Ohno, one of the creators of the...

Hat tip to John Shook and the Lean Enterprise Institute for pointing this out via his email newsletter  -- today would have been the...

I spent Monday and Tuesday in lovely Phoenix at the ASQ Lean and Six Sigma annual conference. I saw many friends there, including Karen...

It's important not to confuse a proper Lean "gemba walk" with the idea of "management by walking around" (MBWA).  What did the late, great...