Crafting a Lean Culture at TaylorMade Golf With Kevin Limbach

In this episode, Tracy finds out how Renaissance man Kevin Limbach of TaylorMade Golf helped “infect the organization with great problem solvers.”

For Survey Says, we’ll find out the results of our poll addressing the biggest challenge to completing online training and certification. In the News we’ll tell you all about our tour of Zingerman’s Mail Order business (and their famous cheesecake) and for Q&A;, we’ll answer a user’s question about Rapid Improvement or Kaizen Events. Great stuff!

Also Listen On:

Timeline

* 1:58 Survey Says

* 4:46 In the News

* Zingerman’s Mail Order – The Online Shop for Food Lovers!

* 10:00 Q&A;

* What are some good examples of Kaizen Events?

* 11:55 Coupon Code

* Special coupon code for all of our awesome listeners: 20% discount on all of our online training!

* 13:07 Today’s Special

* Interview with Kevin Limbach – Vice President, US Operations & Service, TaylorMade Golf Company

* 38:03 This Just In

* Webinar: 5 Ways to Engage Yellow Belts in Applying Their Skills After Certification

* Wonder Women of Quality: Cecilia Martinez

* Success Story: Repurposing 2,600 Hours of Transportation Waste Toward Value-add Work With Hampton Sublett

* GoLeanSixSigma.com Partners With UC San Diego Extension to Offer Green Belt Certification

Podcast Transcript

“One of the things that we learned is that if all you’re looking for is compliance, you’re not going to get sustainability. The way to get sustainability is engage the people doing the work and get commitment from them to the change and they’ll make sure it sustains and actually continue improving.” – Kevin Limbach

Tracy O’Rourke: Hi, everyone. I’m Tracy O’Rourke.

Elisabeth Swan: And I’m Elisabeth Swan.

Tracy O’Rourke: And we are from GoLeanSixSigma.com and you’re listening to the Just-In-Time Café Podcast where we bring you fabulous apps, polls, news, books, and people so you can build your problem-solving muscles.

Elisabeth Swan: Tracy, do you play golf?

Tracy O’Rourke: No. Do you?

Elisabeth Swan: No, and even though this episode has golf in the title, it’s not really about golf, is it?

Tracy O’Rourke: No, it isn’t. But wouldn’t it be cool if you could Six Sigma a golf swing?