I recently had to do some home repairs. It’s amazing what you can learn in a 3-minute video and how much time it will save you. The same is true of Lean Six Sigma. Save yourself time and rework. Learn the easy way.
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Here’s how to build rapport with team members using their communication style: visual, auditory or kinesthetic.
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How can we use the same language as our team members to develop rapport and accelerate the team’s success?
Continue Reading "Building Rapport with Improvement Teams – Step 5"
Here’s how to handle the critic on your team. It’s simple:
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Back when I was a software systems analyst for the phone company, my boss asked me to get requirements from one of our users. He thought it would take months to get the report he wanted. I did it in one day by using the right tool for the job. Here’s how:
In 1931, George Beauchamp combined a guitar with a microphone to create the first electric guitar called the “Frying Pan.” Without it, we wouldn’t have rock-and-roll, country and blues. This is how transitions begin, with a prototype that catapults transition to a new way of doing things.
Isn’t it time to start doing the same thing with Lean Six Sigma? Not amplification, but acceleration?
HBR’s article on Agile At Scale predicts the future of business and Lean Six Sigma. Here’s what I learned:
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The July-August, 2018 Inc. magazine has an article (pg. 22) about manufacturing vs supply chain service jobs. From 1999-2015:
With increasing manufacturing automation, more jobs are being created around supporting production than actual production. Something to think about.
I’ve lived through Business Process Reengineering which often stumbled because it was impossible to take a complex system and “reengineer” it. The only method I’ve found that works consistently is Agile Process Innovation. Here’s how it works:
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People often ask me, how big should an improvement team be? My answer: as small as possible.
In Fred Brooks’ Mythical Man Month, he points out that communication pathways increase in a nonlinear fashion. The formula is simple:
(n2-n)/2
Where n is the number of people on a team.
The bigger the team, the more time is spent on discussion and communication, not progress.
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