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At Agile Cincinnati last week, I had the opportunity to present the Lean Sales and Marketing presentation, It’s not your Grandmother’s Lean Anymore! The reason I picked this title is that so many identify Lean with waste reduction. I view Lean and PDCA from the aspect of knowledge creation. The first part of my slide deck discusses that and the new…

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Watch as Mike Micklewright uses comedy, to dissect the top 10 list of unacceptable corrective actions when it comes to today's quality systems:





You know why this video is funny? It is because we have heard them all. In fact, Most of us have said them ourselves at one time. And as odd as it may seem, customer may even accept them for awhile. What is the corrective action?



I find in any methodology that the creation of a standard seems to be the key… Continue

Professor Ikujiro Nonaka in the book, The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation proposed that organizational knowledge is created through a cycle of continuous social interaction of tacit and explicit knowledge involving four modes of knowledge conversion: Socialization,… Continue

Jason Kilgore is much more than just your typical Lean Six Sigma consultant. I ran across Jason on the web answering a LinkedIn question about internal and external consultants. He spoke highly of each, gave practical common sense answers on when to use them and sold nothing! He caught my attention and I went surfing.

What I found was a Business Process Manager for Riverside Health System in Newport News, Virginia, where he has utilized his expertise in Project Management, Lean, and…

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