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Where to Focus Improvements for Employee Engagement

March 7, 2020March 7, 2020 bizpi employee engagement, Gemba, Kaizen, Masaaki Imai, Productivity, Safety

I am re-reading the book, Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to a Continuous Improvement Strategy by Masaaki Imai (founder of

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Rise Against Hunger Awarded Inaugural IISE Excellence in Sustainable Development

June 9, 2019March 25, 2020 bizpi California, Central Distribution Warehouse, Florida, IISE, Lean Six Sigma for Good, Rise Against Hunger, Sustainable Development Division, Sustainable Development Goals

Rise Against Hunger is an international hunger relief nonprofit organization founded in 1998 that distributes food and life-changing aid to

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Why I like using the Ideal State Mapping approach

October 10, 2018February 5, 2021 bizpi Current State, facilitation, Future State, Ideal State, kaizen event, lean event, process map, value stream mapping, VSM

During Value Stream Mapping or Process Mapping events, I facilitate a team through the current state map of the process,

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Combining DMAIC and lean events to maximize process improvements

March 29, 2015November 11, 2019 bizpi analyze, control, define, dmaic, dmaic projects, improve, measure, six sigma projects

The DMAIC approach for process improvement is the foundation for Six Sigma, and I have grown to appreciate it more

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8 ways why batching is bad for your business

August 23, 2013March 10, 2021 bizpi batching process, cost of inventory, inventory waste, one piece flow, problems with inventory, single piece flow, why is batching bad, why is inventory bad

One of the most common questions we get when reviewing a process: “What’s wrong with batching? I can produce so

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How many of the 50 Best Practices for Process Excellence has your company implemented?

November 29, 2012November 11, 2019 bizpi 50, assessment, benchmarking, best practices, book, company, comparison, excellence, improvement, lean, pollock, process, qmss, score, Six Sigma, waste

Lee Pollock and Mark Kiemele are authors of a new book, Reversing the Culture of Waste – 50 Best Practices to

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Reducing your time might seem like lean, but you can easily anger your customers

August 18, 2012November 11, 2019 bizpi business, customers, data, document, efficiency, employees, improvement, lean, optimization, problems, reduce, report, satisfaction, Six Sigma, sub, time, upset, value, waste

Lean is about increasing value to your customer. Often times, this requires you to eliminate waste in the process. However,

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We don’t need any help, we are already lean!

July 25, 2012November 11, 2019 bizpi cycle time, deliver, employees, errors, improvement, lean, manufacturing, measure, multitasking, office, process, quality, reviews, Six Sigma, templates, throughput, transactional, value, wip, workplace

“Lean and Six Sigma are only for manufacturing organizations!” “Our processes/company is unique, so that won’t work here!” “We’re already

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Cost savings from process improvements can be misleading

April 25, 2011November 11, 2019 bizpi bottom line, chart, completions, cycle time, event, excel, financials, improvement, lean, process, project, reductions, savings, Six Sigma, variation, waste, wip

I’ve been to many conferences, and have seen lots of companies claim cost savings and metric improvements that are very

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Start simple before you map your processes

March 5, 2011April 14, 2021 bizpi 5-s, 5s, best, continuous, control, document, imrprove, lean, mapping, organization, simple, Six Sigma, standard, statistics, work, workplace

We see a lot of different processes at various levels of process performance. Some are running near six sigma levels,

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