Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Call 25APR2006
Small group discussion this evening.
The notes from the call in map/pdf form are here. If you have MindManager software, the original map is here.
Key take away:
Rather than have a call next week,
we will join the call for George Scamby's Webinar on Wednesday (May 3rd) 7-8pm ET.
Details and registration for George's talk can be found at www.sme.org/lean. His topic will be "Achieving Lean Engineering Through Employee Involvement."
If you would like to join the Human Side of Lean calls in the future, typically every Tuesday evening, the details are here.
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
April 18, 2006 Conference Call
Light turn out this evening, probably Easter Bunny fatigue. Those that were on the call enjoyed a discussion of "Leaders & Followers" with Gene Dixon talking about his research interests.
The notes from the call in map/pdf form are here. If you have MindManager software, the original map is here.
Key take away:
Good leaders display more follower traits, on the whole. and,
The military model provides some lessons of choosing leaders from good followers.
We have a natural or cultural bias against the word "follower." Though those effective followers are far from passive or mindless automotons. We will continue the discussion next week.
If you would like to join these calls in the future, typically every Tuesday evening, the details are here.Thursday, April 13, 2006
IOC Research
As a follow up to Tuesday's phone call (4/1//2006), Toni Doolen has provided a more detailed presentation. The presentation contains a lot of great information, much more than we captured during the phone call.
A reminder: she is looking for help to identify other potential study participants (i.e. companies that are committed to running Kaizen events). This presentation goes a long way to explain what the study is all about.
So even if you were on the phone call, check it out.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Discussion 11APR2006
We were joined by Toni Doolen and Gene Dixon . Welcome and thanks for contributing.
The discussion centered around research Toni is doing as part of an NSF grant. The notes from the call in map/pdf form are here. If you have MindManager software, the original map is here.
Toni provided more detail in the form of a presentation, which can be downloaded here.
Key take away:
What factors contribute to "sustained" process improvements. and,
Are there companies, that we know of, that are using Kaizen events on a regular basis, that would be interested in participating in the study?
Next week we will let Gene Dixon talk about his interests in the area of Leaders & Followers.
If you would like to join these calls in the future, typically every Tuesday evening, the details are here.UPDATE Links were to March data, fixed. Now 11APR2006.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Phone Call 04APR - More Structogram
You can click to expand this jpg image or download a pdf of the image here.
We continued the discussion of Structograms with a SWOT analysis of the assessment tool, focusing on the environment of applying it with the team. The meeting notes from tonight's call in map/pdf form are here. If you have MindManager software, the original map is here.
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