The Human Side of Lean

Phone call was held tonight. The meeting notes in map/pdf form are here. If you have MindManager software, the original map is here.

Discussion centered around:

LEAN in an office setting. and
Wisdom(?) of having upper management at Kaizen events.

If you would like to join these calls in the future, typically every Tuesday evening, the details are here.

Phone call was held tonight. The meeting notes in map/pdf form are here. If you have MindManager software, the original map is here.

Discussion centered around:

The DiSC assessment tool. and
Some ways it is used in an organization.

Our thanks to Pam Butterfield for fielding questions and discussing the DiSC assessment tool.

If you would like to join these calls in the future, typically every Tuesday evening, the details are here.

We occasionally get into a discussion of LEAN and Six Sigma during the phone calls. I was looking for a definition of IDEF when I ran across this site.

The CBPI Framework is more along the lines of system process analysis. Indeed the acronym stands for Continuous Business Process Improvement (CBPI). The above link is their resource center. It has some nice compact descriptions of tools in both the Six Sigma and LEAN space.

And, the descriptions are written in simple understandable language. Particularly the discussion of how Six Sigma and LEAN are complementary.

Tonight we used the Arkadin "Datanow" tool to use both the phone and internet for the conference call.

The topic was Myers-Briggs. We shared a desktop application and discussed a SWOT analysis.

Just a reminder that next Tuesday's phone call will use both a web log-in and a conference call. We are going to work with network meeting software.

The discussion topic will be the Myers-Briggs assessment tool. We will dicuss the strengths and weaknesses of MB as a tool that helps lead to a sustained implementation. The framework for the discussion is this map (link is a pdf copy of the map).

We hope you can review the MB description this week-end and join us for Tuesday night's discussion.