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• Kaizen and GamingMost people that read the title tend to get a...

  
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  Kaizen and Gaming Most people that read the title tend to get a bit confused. I am not talking about the gaming… View Post
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• Kaizen and Gaming

  
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  Most people that read the title tend to get a bit confused. I am not talking about the gaming part, but the Kaizen part. Let’s explore what Kaizen has to do with gaming. What is Kaizen? Kaizen is a Japanese[...]
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• Embracing instability

  
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  Kaizen is largely a drive toward stability – that is a more consistent operation, producing a more consistent result. The key is the definition of “consistent.” Overproduction is a way to achieve the illusion of consistency in the face of inherently unstable operations. Your machines are unreliable? Run faster ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kaizen vs. Kaizen “Events”

  
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  I got an interesting email from a friend a while ago, and am finally finishing up this post about it. Some months ago, he joined a new company and wrote about his impressions of some of the legacy he was walking into: [before my arrival, the company] used Xxxxxx consultants to get their Lean effort up and running.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why Apple Will Continue To Lead

  
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  iPhone in 3 sizes, small, medium, large – source techcrunch.com The pundits criticize Apple for falling behind, theorizing in the absence of their spiritual leader, Steve Jobs, that innovation and that certain quality he brought, is now fading. The market is becoming anxious with Apple, sans Jobs. They believe that ...
  2 weeks ago

• PDCA, A3 and Practical Problem Solving

  
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  Over the years, I have been party to at least three corporate-level efforts to bring “A3” or “Practical Problem Solving” into their toolbox. Sometimes it has other names, such as “Management by Fact” or such, but the approaches are all similar. Typically these efforts, if they catch on at all, become ...
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• Rapid PDCA

  
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  This sub-assembly line had a planned cycle time of 15 minutes. The most skilled and experienced assembler could almost get all of the work done in that time, but generally, two people were required to consistently deliver without stopping the main line. Among other obstacles identified, the first assembly step ...
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• Results

  
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  Past Due Hours This area was picked for the initial focus because they were way, way behind, and it was getting worse. The initial work was done in mid-April. The target was consistent output at takt time. As the team looked at the process, and identified the sources of disruption and variation, “changeovers” ...
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• Learning how to deal with mild panic

  
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  Another mild panic attack in fitness class yesterday, jolts of worry and tears that I wiped away as sweat. I knew it was just my lizard brain in overdrive. I couldn’t stop it by reasoning it away as irrational. All I could do was breathe and keep on going, dampening my emotions by spacing out while going through the ...
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• Unused Creativity

  
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  I finally watched the second part of Brené Brown’s Super Soul Sunday appearance this evening. I posted about her a few weeks ago and I can’t deny she’s one of my heroes. She made a comment pretty early on in the episode that really struck me.   The quote reminds me of the Maya Angelou quote on my ...
  3 weeks ago

• 5 Zingers on The Spirit of Kaizen (Robert Maurer)

  
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  Small is the new significant. The Spirit of Kaizen is a small book by Robert Maurer that offers excellent guidance on making changes one small step at a time. This is an invaluable resource in employee engagement to counter the withering away of employee engagement because of the failure of many large scale programs ...
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• Encouragement

  
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  There’s a lot of power in encouragement, whether it takes the form of a compliment, a helping hand, or just a smile. If you don’t believe me, check out this video about one student’s efforts to counteract cyberbullying (and, I’d say, bullying of all kinds): Jeremiah Anthony is, as he says in the comments on ...
  3 weeks ago

• Permission to Succeed

  
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  I really can’t believe this is the last Saturday of the Ultimate Blog Challenge, which means that this is, potentially, the last of the “Permission” series I’ve been doing. I’ve saved one of the most interesting forms of permission for last. A lot of people roll their eyes at the idea of anyone needing ...
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• Small Steps

  
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  Diane asked about dealing with the overwhelm and anxiety she’s facing when she considers writing a guest blog post for someone else’s site. Yesterday, we looked at perfectionism and how insidious it can be. Today, we’re going to break it down—literally. Meet Your Inner Lizard A lot of anxiety, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why Apple Will Continue To Lead

  
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  iPhone in 3 sizes, small, medium, large – source techcrunch.com The pundits criticize Apple for falling behind, theorizing in the absence of their spiritual leader, Steve Jobs, that innovation and that certain quality he brought, is now fading. The market is becoming anxious with Apple, sans Jobs. They believe that ...
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• The Enemy of the Good

  
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  I asked for questions yesterday, if anyone had them, and Diane bravely asked, “I would love to do a guest post on other peoples blogs, but I get shy and nervous. I always feel that my writing isn’t good enough, or that my topic wont be interesting enough. I would love to read more about overcoming anxiety, and ...
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• Things I learned from sketchnoting the FITC design conference

  
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  FITC hired me to sketchnote the FITC Toronto 2013 conference/festival, which finished yesterday. Since the conference focused on art, design, and technology, visual notes made perfect sense. =) Workflow: Because I do digital sketchnotes using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro on a Lenovo X220 tablet PC, I could sit ...
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• Question Time

  
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  As we approach the end of the Ultimate Blog Challenge, which has found me seeking out blog ideas every day for the month of April, I’m hearing from several of you that you’re finding my posts helpful and even inspiring. I’m very gratified to hear that, because when you put these things out in the world it’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dreams and Goals, part 2

  
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  Yesterday I talked about goals vs. dreams, and how we relate to them differently. The funny thing is that sometimes we do set ourselves goals, and we forget them. Yesterday, I found a list, meticulously written out in a friend’s handwriting, from a goal-setting exercise we once did. It’s a 2-column grid, with ...
  4 weeks ago

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