Lean Six Sigma often evokes the image of a war room of sorts: a physical space with whiteboards, sticky notes, and a group of ...

I am a lean leader and always willing to share my learnings. I’ve written several blog posts chronicling my lean experience at different organizations. Some of them have been quite popular with ...

When conducting process improvement, Root Cause Analysis is a physical, human-centric exercise. It involves stakeholders ...

He's a manufacturing guru who never manufactured anything. He's a management expert who never managed anything. He's James P. Womack, manufacturing guru and management expert, who described himself as ...

The term "gemba" has gone in the lean community from obscure to ubiquitous, as popular as terms like kaizen. But through the growth in its use, there has also been a growth in its misuse. How do we ...

When we say something is “not rocket science” we mean that it is not hard to figure out or to do. If managing people were as easy as rocket science I am sure a rocket scientist would have figured it ...