Month: April 2018
2018 Global Lean Leadership Summit
Paul Akers welcome folks to the Global Lean Leadership Summit at YelloTools in Windeck, Germany on September 12-13, 2018. For more information on the 2018 Global Lean Leadership Summit, visit the website.
Happy Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day! Hard to believe it was a year ago I was on the World Forestry Tour with my mentor, Bob Taylor.
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Want to know the Kaizen Hat story?
Paul Akers tells the story of the Kaizen Hat and how it came to be! It is to honor the Japanese people for everything he has learned from them.
Japan – Lean Laundrymat
Paul Akers is impressed with just how lean the machines are at a laundromat in Japan.
Fastcap’s 21 Principles – People and Things
Paul Akers discusses one of FastCap’s 21 principles called People and Things. Are you someone who takes responsibilities for more and more people and things?
For more all of FastCap’s morning meeting documents, go to this link and look under Lean Documents.
Do you Need a Kanban Board?
Excellent video of Rich Stein & Mike Trulove explaining how using a Kanban board has been improving their production. Great work gentlemen!
Lean Lessons Learned: Worth Repeating!
What would I do differently if I had all the Lean knowledge and experience I have today? Check out my post on the Lean Construction Blog entitled Lean Lessons Learned: 10 Steps to Success.
What does Lean mean to you?
John Kramer, at Cambridge Engineering shares what Lean means to him.