Benefits of Poka-Yoke Mistake Proofing
The Lean East team shares a few techniques and advantages of Poka-Yoke, the Japanese term for mistake proofing.
Crash Course on the Many Organizational Improvement Methodologies
The Lean East team shares a crash course on the many organizational improvement methodologies and when to apply them.
Benefits of the Lean East PERFORMANCE™ Process
The Lean East team shares the steps in our PERFORMANCE™ Process and three reasons why this process works so well.
Why Six Sigma Methodology Has a Bad Rap
The Lean East team shares an introduction to Six Sigma Methodology and why it has a bad rap.
Time Management Principles and Lean
The Lean East team shares some of the similarities between Stephen Covey’s principles of time management and Lean thinking.
Noise is a Flaw in Human Judgment, but it is Not New!
We summarize the key points in “Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment” by Kahneman. Lean Six Sigma methods also reduce variation and remove noise.
Small Giants
Seven Lessons from Bo Burlingham’s “Small Giants: Companies That Choose to be Great Instead of Big” for private company founders.
The Entrepreneurial Myth (E-Myth)
The Entrepreneurial Myth (E-Myth) Revisited by Michael Gerber. Lean East summarizes why most small businesses don’t work, and what to do about It.
Continuous Flow
Lean East shares the benefits of trying to achieve continuous process flow – completing one piece at a time rather than batching. Reduce buffers to see problems!
Setting Objectives: Measure What Matters
Learn how to write SMART goals and the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) method of setting objectives from the book “Measure What Matters.”
