Lean Thinking for Business Excellence with Thom Keehan of Enterprise Kaizen

Enterprise Kaizen has released a book! Enterprise Problem Solving: Seven Methods to Improve the Efficiency and Predictability of Your Business Operating Model. In this episode, we breakdown why we wrote this book and what you can expect to find in it.

You need to gain acceptance to implement change which means "Why?" is your focus. I discuss the need to not only accept the change, but to USE the change.

This is episode 3/4 on the four main elements of Continuous Improvement. Now that we have seen the waste with Lean, figured out which Problem Solving Method to use, now we use Data to make our decision on the solution that we can sustain and start to tell the story.

This is the 2nd out of 4 for our short series of Continuous Improvement. We discuss how to approach solving the problems the waste you have identified in the first episode, Lean Thinking.

This is the first in a four-part series defining the basic four elements of Continuous Improvement. I discuss the definition of Lean, the 8 Wastes, and understanding where to look for them. The other episodes will be on Problem Solving, Data Driven Decision Making, and Adopting Change.

Information flow is just as critical as process flow and the flow of time.

How do you communicate your "theme"? Do you know what your theme is? Mine have always balanced around three things and I discuss them in this podcast.

Do your improvements outpace the capability of your people or equipment? This is a quick episode to discuss why to keep them in line with each other.

In this episode, we talk about the existence of shame in the implementation of 5S and how to get around it as there is no shame in 5S. 

Many businesses struggle with the process of 5S, as it points out places of mistakes and inefficiency. People can often feel shame when it comes to implementing 5S and dealing with the exposure of the problems they've been covering up, but there shouldn't be shame, as it shows you what can be improved and how things can only get better from there.