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By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated December 11, 2009

Lean Thinking and the Amazon Kindle

I receive emails from recruiters - frequently. So, as a favor to them, I am posting a job for your interest: the hiring company is

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated November 25, 2009

I've tried this a few times, but I think this time, with the help of the kids and my sweet wife, we've got it right for our family. Here's our Family

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated November 24, 2009

Often, our best moments are during times of trial. Indeed, what we remember most and what is most inspiring are not the scores of naysayers that

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated November 22, 2009

John Kotter makes a good case that urgency is the key ingredient in any organizational transformation. Conversely, the lower the urgency, the higher

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated November 19, 2009

Hoshin Kanri, sometimes called Hoshin Kanri A3, is a management tool used at Toyota to align business strategy and mobilize the entire organization

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated November 17, 2009

Things are all too familiar. That's good and bad. It's good if the service or product meets my basic needs and is memory-neutral: that is, the

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated November 11, 2009

Recently, Tim Brown, the CEO at IDEO came to a realization that Design Thinking can coexist with Six Sigma and Lean. For a while, his stance was

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated November 8, 2009

We all love stories. Stories have characters that we relate to or hate, there's drama, heroes and villains, and the best stories stir the emotion.

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated September 28, 2009

Change efforts sometimes fail. Specifically, transformation or Change efforts sometimes fail. Despite the gravity of the crisis, our responses