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A friend of mine from New Orleans recently posted this photo from school of his nephew showing a cell-phone-holder-board to keep track of who is present

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A certain well known high street bank in South Shields told me yesterday that the earliest they could set up an appointment to open a

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As I walk through any value stream – and I walk a lot every year as I visit many companies in many countries — I

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I respect Kauser Khan for her obvious business skills and determination and wish her and her company Protocol.org.in all the best ( see article below

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Who was the first Lean Six Sigma practitioner in history ?   My vote goes to Adam Smith in 1776.  Adam Smith owned a factory in Scotland that made

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I was recently asked about my opinion of a new process improvement concept called ‘Customer Experience Management’  or CEM.    This has been promoted in the

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Takt time is a useful metric that many companies could benefit from using. It is the ‘beat’ or ‘rhythm’ that the workers need to work

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Yokoten is a Japanese term that can be roughly translated as “across everywhere.” In a Lean company it is used to mean “best practice sharing”.  This

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Viewsonics go #EXTREMESIXSIGMA crazy with their new monitors. Zero defective pixels allowed out of a total of 4 million / monitor. Their website explains how

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