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A month ago I had the pleasure of attending the LEI Lean Transformation Summit – this year held in Nashville, Tennessee! The theme of this year’s Summit: “Want better employees?...
I’m excited to announce that the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) San Francisco Bay Area Consortium officially launched on April 20, 2018! AME SFBA Consortium Partnership I began my partnership...
Podcast #302 – Katie Anderson on Japan: Standard Work, Customers, and Healthcare Thank you for following the podcast that I recently did with Mark Graban. I enjoyed speaking with Mark...
I was thrilled to receive my copy of Karen Martin’s new book “Clarity First” in the mail a few weeks ago, and I’m even more thrilled to be able to...
What have you been learning or working on this month? I am in the midst of a four week period with no work travel, which has been unusual in the...
Japan is famous for customer service and hospitality, known as “omotenashi” in Japanese, and for being a safe and clean country – and my experiences on recent trip to Japan...
I just got back from a week and a half trip to Japan to prepare for an upcoming Japan lean study trip I’m leading on behalf of the Ohio State...
What is the best way to learn a process? Practice on yourself! After three years of conversations and visits with each other in Japan, the U.S. and Europe, Mr. Isao...
How are you thinking about setting your goals for the new year? What are your intentions for 2018? What is important to you and how will you point yourself in...
Happy almost new year! It’s that time of year not only to look back on personal reflections, as I shared in my most recent post, but also to round up...
“Today is a great day” As I sit down to reflect on 2017, it is my father’s motto that “today is a great day” that stands out for me. 2017...
After an intense two months of travel for many exciting professional and personal opportunities – including being part of the ELEC 2017 in the Netherlands and a week of vacation...
My latest article for the Lean Post titled “Summit Reflections: Knowing What You Need to Improve” was just published! In it, I reflect some questions that
You may have asked yourself: “Does every problem require an A3?” Maybe even you’ve asked: “What is an A3?” Or: “What are A3 problem-solving tools?”
Two weeks ago I saw an article in the Japan Times titled: “Nagoya hospital taps Toyota’s famed workflow to reduce staff errors”. My interest was
How should I start coaching using the personal A3 process? Many of you have reached out to me after I published the first post in this
A3 thinking for problem-solving is a well-known process in the Lean community, but did you realize that it can be a powerful process for personal
I just spent most of this week unloading boxes of our life from the sea container that just arrived form Japan and the storage unit of everything
I just came back from presenting at the 5th Annual Lean Coaching Summit held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last week. This Summit was the third consecutive
Since the beginning of this year, I’ve become a bit obsessed with collecting Daruma dolls. Before I left Japan in June, I bought nearly 100 Darumas
When I wrote my last post while on the Shinkansen, I knew it would probably be a few weeks until I was able to write
I am writing this blog post while I’m on what will be my last Shinkansen (bullet train) journey for awhile. In less than three weeks,
In the previous four posts in this series about my visit to Toyota Memorial Hosptial (TMH) in Toyota City, Japan, last month, I’ve covered topics
Continuous Improvement and the Toyota Way In an earlier post about my visit to Toyota Memorial Hospital (TMH) in Toyota City, Japan, last month, I
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