Lean Made Simple: Transform Your Business & Life One Step At A Time!

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Lean Made Simple: Transform Your Business & Life One Step At A Time! episodes

October 16, 2023Lean Legends | Michael Althoff | Yellotools
Michael Althoff is the founder of Yellotools and a pioneer for LEAN transformation in companies, organizations and private environments.
In today’s episode we talk about:
Why you should love the things your customer hates

What baking cookies has to do with lean

Learning from each others mistakes

And how to “shortcut” your lean journey
Check it out!
Links:
Michael’s website: https://www.michael-althoff.com/en/"

Yellotools website: https://www.yellotools.com/shop/en/

Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour
23 min
October 09, 2023One-Piece Flow | Lean Principles | Ryan Tierney
Welcome to Lean Made Simple, a podcast about transforming your business — and life — one step at a time.
In this episode, Ryan Tierney from Seating Matters discusses the powerful lean principle: "One-Piece Flow!"
Along the way, he and Producer Matt talk about:
Why batching is killing your business

Escalators vs elevators

How to introduce flow into your personal and professional life

A better alternative to “annual team-building exercises”

Why you should create a “river of production”

The risks involved (and why they’re worth it)

And how one-piece flow could change the world.
Check it out!
Links:
Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour

Send a voice message/question into the show: ⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/LeanMadeSimple⁠

Connect with Ryan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-tierney-6237a8199/

Webpage for this episode: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/podcast/one-piece-flow
27 min
October 02, 2023Lean Legends | Marc Braun | Encouraging Leaders
Marc Braun is the CEO of Encouraging Leaders, an executive coach and a keynote speaker. His mission is to help successful leaders become even more successful by identifying and addressing the critical behaviours holding them and their teams back.
In this episode he talks about:
How the first improvement he made was on himself

Why he lost his “bathroom privileges”

(And how he got them back)

Being called out by a leader early on in his career

And the role coaching plays in becoming the leader you want to be
Check it out.
Links:
Marc’s website: https://www.encouragingleaders.com/

Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour

P.S. Check out the webpage for this episode with full transcript and video snippets to share at your morning meeting: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/podcast/marc-braun-encouraging-leaders
15 min
September 25, 2023Value vs Non-Value | Lean Principles | Ryan Tierney
Welcome to Lean Made Simple, a podcast about transforming your business — and life — one step at a time.
In this episode, Ryan Tierney from Seating Matters discusses the powerful lean principle: "Value vs Non-Value!"
Along the way, he and Producer Matt talk about:
What a Japanese barber taught him about value

Fine-tuning our “waste goggles”

Why value is only being added when the product is changing

Bob the lean painter

Internal vs external customers

How 90% of everything businesses do is waste

And how to start cutting non-value from our lives
Check it out!
Links:
Video of Donna cutting fabric in Seating Matters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMJ0OPA0G8

Send a voice message/question into the show: https://www.speakpipe.com/LeanMadeSimple

Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour
32 min
September 18, 2023Lean Legends | Brad Cairns | My Door Factory
Brad Cairns is the senior principal at Quantum Lean and is dedicated to improving the woodworking industry in North America using lean methods. He also owns My Door Factory and Stolbek Machines.
In this episode he shares:
Why he changed his company name from “Best Damn Doors”

His first exposure to “lean manufacturing”

How waste is like gravity

Going from making 5 doors per day to 52 within a few weeks of implementing lean

And how he developed a multi-million pound product by solving his own problems
Check it out!
Links:
Brad’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@QuantumLean

Stolbek Machines: https://stolbek.subscribemenow.com/

My Door Factory: https://mydoorfactory.ca/

Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour
18 min
September 11, 2023 2-Second Lean Summit | Learnings & Improvements
Last week, 200+ Lean Maniacs from 16+ different countries travelled to Limavady, Northern Ireland for the 2-Second Lean Summit.
In this episode we catch up with Ryan Tierney to find out how the Seating Matters team pulled off such a successful event (using lean principles) as well as the highlights, learnings and improvements they discovered along the way.
Check it out!
https://www.leanmadesimple.com/podcast/2-second-lean-summit

28 min
September 04, 2023The Power of G.R.E.A.T Processes | Tom Hughes | GembaDocs
Tom Hughes is an entrepreneur and author with 30+ years’ experience of Lean and Senior Leadership. He‘s also the founder of GembaDocs: the best way in the world to document SOP’s.
In today's episode we talk about:
Why it took him 20-years to actually understand what lean is

(And how you can save yourself that long painful journey!)

What the heck a “Gemba” is

How documenting procedures can radically transform your business

And the power of SEEING how your customers actually use your product
Check it out!
Links:
Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour

Start a free trial of GembaDocs: https://gembadocs.com/

Check out Tom’s Books: https://improvementstartswithi.com/
43 min
August 29, 2023Wherever You Ask The Question, That’s Where The Answer Should Be | Lean Principles | Ryan Tierney
Welcome to Lean Made Simple, a podcast about transforming your business —and life —one improvement at a time.
In this episode, Ryan Tierney from Seating Matters discusses the powerful lean principle: "Wherever You Ask The Question, That's Where The Answer Should Be!"
Along the way, he and Producer Matt talk about:
How Center Parcs, McDonald's, and Amazon have used this principle to scale

Why reducing the cognitive load of your team turbocharges your business

Practical examples from Ryan's personal and professional life

Analyzing if your organization is doing this well by using the "sentence-stop-test"

What impact this concept has made on Ryan's business, team, and customers

The power of providing answers before questions are even asked

And some improvements from Ryan’s 7-year-old son to inspire you to get started today
Check it out!
P.S. Book a Lean Made Simple Tour at: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour
33 min
August 28, 2023Improve Your Business by 600% | Paul Akers | 2-Second Lean
Paul Akers is the founder of FastCap: a multi-million dollar company he and his wife started in their garage 13-years ago.
Along the way he’s established himself as an internationally renowned lean thinker, educator, and practitioner as well as being the author of the hugely influential book: 2-Second Lean.
In today’s episode we talk about:
What 2-Second Lean is and how it can improve your business by 600%

Why companies who do lean properly dwarf their competition

The best kept secret of Japanese powerhouses like Toyota & Lexus

Books he’s read 10+ times

The importance of going deep not wide

Why Ireland is experiencing a lean-revolution

The power of creating and visiting a “Learning Laboratory”

Solving the “overfed, disobedient leadership problem”

And the life-changing opportunity that happen every 30-days
Check it out!
Links:
Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour

Check out Paul’s Books: https://paulakers.net/books/2-second-lean

FastCap website: https://www.fastcap.com/
36 min
August 28, 2023Leave It Better Than You Found It | Lean Principles | Ryan Tierney
Welcome to Lean Made Simple, a podcast about transforming your business — and life — one improvement at a time.
In this episode Ryan Tierney from Seating Matters discusses a powerful lean principle known as: Leave It Better Than You Found It!
Along the way he and Producer Matt talk about:
The three levels of “Leave It Better Than You Found It”

Creating a generous team culture that always thinks of the next person

Practical use cases for individual work areas and communal spaces in your business

Why his 12-year-old forklift looks brand new

Leaving a job better than you found it by becoming a process engineer

Implementing a “this is the worst it will ever be” mentality across your team

The radical changes this principle had made on Ryan’s business

And how you can apply this concept to your professional and personal life by the end of the episode
Check it out!
P.S. Book a Lean Made Simple Tour at: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour
30 min

About Lean Made Simple: Transform Your Business & Life One Step At A Time!

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Welcome to Lean Made Simple: a podcast for people who want to change their business and their lives one step at a time. I’m Ryan Tierney from Seating Matters, a manufacturing company from Limavady,…