Lean Manufacturing Principles, Tools, and Concepts

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated July 20, 2008

Maintain Forward Tension

This article discusses Creative Tension and its role in Innovation and Change Management. One principle in Wing Chun is the maintaining of forward

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated July 6, 2008

Here's a novel Customer Retention Strategy: Do Not Run From Your Customers. I've spoken extensively about the unheralded -- but, arguably, the most

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated June 7, 2008

Motorola (MOT), the inventor of Six Sigma, is in big trouble. Even though it invented Six Sigma, this is a clear example that shows how Lean or Six

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated May 11, 2008

I spoke at a Lean Six Sigma conference last week, held in Chicago and you can get my presentation on Integrating Lean and Six Sigma here. The

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated April 10, 2008

A friend of mine recently contacted me, seeking my advice on how to get a job at Amazon.com; my friend is a top-notch software engineer, manager, and

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated March 12, 2008

We can learn powerful lessons on visual communication from hospital visual management yes, even in the maternity room. A few months ago we adopted

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated February 25, 2008

A great Genchi Genbutsu Example is Abraham Lincoln and Leadership. This article shows how he applied "go and see". I just finished reading the book

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated February 7, 2008

On average, most business processes are inefficient and create an unhealthy amount of waste: once you learn to see the process waste all around --

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated January 25, 2008

One of my primary goals in life is to teach my kids to be eventually good, productive, and self-reliant adults. One area of life-skills that my wife