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Leading Lean A-Z: "I" for Integrity
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, co-author, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean Some of you have read the beginning of my Leading Lean A-Z. You can see the introduction and the first post here. I continue, quite out...
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The Key to a Successful Lean Journey? Leadership!
By Jamie Flinchbaugh, Lean Learning Center A friend of mine, Kurt Woolley at Intel, has written an article for Industry Week that is quite popular. I thought I would share it here. It’s title is: The...
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How to Adjust your Lean Efforts in this Economic Crisis?
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, Lean Learning Center I can’t count how many times I’ve said that there is no recipe for lean. You must chart your lean journey based on both where you are and where you want to...
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Shortening up the Value Stream
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, Lean Learning Center: On this blog, there have been several discussions and posts about jobs going overseas, not so much from a protectionist and politics standpoint, but more...
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5S Still Gives Companies Fits
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, Lean Learning Center I occasionally answer questions on lean for Bosch Rexroth’s lean page. This was just posted in their latest email newsletter. You can read the question and...
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5S for Email
By Jamie Flinchbaugh, Lean Learning Center We recently released Issue 14 of Lean Progress and it included a brief set of tips on how to apply 5S on email. There is perhaps much more that could be...
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Practical Kaizen Planning Tool
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, Lean Learning Center Kaizens have always been a popular part of lean journeys. In this environment where “quick wins” and fast paybacks are genuinely very important, they are a...
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The Lean Entrepreneur
By Jamie Flinchbaugh, Lean Learning Center There is no question at this point that 2009 is the worst economy we’ve all seen since the great depression. Good people are getting laid off left and right...
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A3 Problem Solving
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, Lean Learning Center I’ll be speaking at Industry Week’s Best Plants conference in April on A3 problem solving. They asked me to write a short promotional piece about the topic,...
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March Madness and Lean
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, Lean Learning Center As March Madness begins, many people’s eyes will be fixed to TVs and computer screens while they root for the favorite teams. Where’s the lesson for Lean in...
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Jamie Flinchbaugh Speaking Topics in April
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, co-author, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean In the month of April I’ll be presenting two topics at different conferences. I thought I would share these with you. The Lean Product...
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Are you an Assembly Plant of the Year?
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, Lean Learning Center Wanna be a winner? Think you’re pretty good? The deadline for ASSEMBLY’s 6th annual Assembly Plant of the Year award is just a few weeks away (April...
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Lean in Government Conference
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, Lean Learning Center The federal deficit has ballooned to record numbers. Never before has lean been more important to government. With a undeniable need to drop future spending,...
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NIH = "Not Invented Here"
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, co-author, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean I believe that NIH, or Not Invented Here, is one of the silliest cultural barriers to progress. What we’re basically saying is that there...
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Learn to Play Before Picking Up a Sax
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, co-author, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean A3 thinking, A3 problem solving, A3 report writing – whatever you might call it is growing popular in the same way that value stream...
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When is it time for lean "lite"?
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean Many of the frequent LeanBlog readers will know that I have been a regular guest blogger on LeanBlog.org. I am not in any way ending that...
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Leading Lean A-Z: F for be First
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, co-author, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean [This is a continuation of a thread on Leading Lean topics from A-Z] When visiting companies that feel better about their lean journey...
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No Rx for Lean
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, Lean Learning Center I recently have had the opportunity to review a wide range of sites and companies and provide feedback on their lean journey. One of the things that really...
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Leading Lean A-Z: K, Be Kinetic
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, Lean Learning Center This continues a series titled Leading Lean A-Z. This post is K: Be Kinetic. Did you ever have one of those days where you just wanted to put your feet up on...
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Guest Post: Use forced habits to change behaviors
Mark’s note: Today’s post is by an old friend of mine and this blog, Jamie Flinchbaugh. This post is a preview of the free webinar that Jamie will be doing next Tuesday, hosted by me and KaiNexus. We...
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