Getting Wild & Ending Extinction Using Lean Six Sigma With Jeff Foster of the San Diego Zoo

This month, it’s all happening at the zoo. We’ll be interviewing Jeff Foster of the San Diego Zoo to find out how rhinos deal with process improvement.

For today’s appetizer we’ll review an app that is bad grammar’s antidote to the “To Do” list. For our Bulletin Board we’ll discuss what Vitamix discovered when they put Lean in a blender and then we’ll head to a Lean farm in Massachusetts to see how they removed waste and managed dirt. For Tools of the Trade, we’re discussing one of Daniel Pink’s books where he maintains that we’ve all got a little used car salesmen in us. Last up, some Q&A; to settle the question of whether or not Toyota’s chief architect of the Toyota Production System was a student of Dr. Deming’s. Spring is here, so we’re sipping our coffee next to a big bouquet of tulips here at the Just-in-Time Cafe.

Also Listen On:

Timeline

* 3:30 Appetizer of the Day

* idonethis

* 6:55 Bulletin Board

* Continuous Improvement at Vitamix

* Lean Farming

* 13:20 Tools of the Trade

* To Sell Is Human by Daniel Pink

* www.danpink.com/books/to-sell-is-human/

* Read Our Book Review of To Sell Is Human

* 19:10 Special Request (Q&A;)

* Did Taiichi Ohno learn from Dr. Edwards Deming?

* 21:30 Today’s Special

* Interview with Jeff Foster from San Diego Zoo

* San Diego Zoo Global – Wildlife Conservancy

* San Diego State University Extension

Podcast Transcript

Intro: Welcome to Just-In-Time Café, GoLeanSixSigma.com’s official podcast where we help you build your problem-solving muscles. We share best practices from over 20 years of success helping organizations from the Fortune 500 to small and medium-size business to government achieve their goals using Lean Six Sigma.

Introduction

Tracy: Hey, Elisabeth. How are you today?

Elisabeth: I’m awesome, Tracy. How about you?

Tracy: You know, life is pretty good right now.

Elisabeth: Well, it’s great. This is our first spring podcast so I’m quite excited about spring.

Tracy: How is that? Why is that, Elisabeth? Because you’re loving Cape Cod?

Elisabeth: Yeah. I mean it’s just the rebirth. It’s time to get to work. Let’s get out there. The winter is done. You get out of your house. Things are starting. I know you’re in California.