Recently there was a good article/book excerpt posted at the Four Hour Work Week blog that discusses lean principles and gives some good push and pull examples.
Push Pull Systems
That article is reminiscent of some past articles you will find in the archives of this blog… in particular the segue from the article on the importance [...]
Jon Miller writes for the lean and kaizen blog over at Gemba Panta Rei. Although the majority of the kaizen and lean business sites on the net are focused mainly on nuts and bolts manufacturing operations there are still a lot of lessons and principles to be gleaned from them for your own online [...]
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
First go checkout these two three good posts:
http://www.jamesbrausch.org/do-large-companies-use-multivariate-testing/
http://www.aaronbrandon.com/can-this-be-tested/
http://www.jamesbrausch.org/testing-for-success/
Now let this message sink in real deep, testing is not just for advertising! People seem to be all hung up that it testing only happens when it comes to sales and marketing and that couldn’t be further from the truth…
In fact the majority of my kaizen background [...]
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Jon Miller who blogs about lean and kaizen business over at Gemba Panta Rei has put together a cool spaghetti chart… If you recall from long time ago post that spaghetti charts are a great way for spotting wastes, particularly the waste of motion.
Check it out here:
http://www.gembapantarei.com/2008/02/101_kaizen_templates_spaghetti_diagram.html
Even if you only have a simple office space [...]
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Do you continuously improve your traffic? You should be. I don’t mean jumping on the latest fad for a couple days. But are you really tracking the progress and results of each of your traffic generation techniques.
This is especially important for those of you who purchased the pre-canned traffic procedures. They will absolutely work to [...]
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Well quite a bit has happened since the inception of this blog back in March of last year. For those of you who are new I started this blog because of my passion and knowledge for kaizen, lean, six sigma and business… Being a bit of a techno guy it has a twist for Internet [...]
Thursday, December 27, 2007
If you have been hanging around here for any length of time you should know that I constantly harp on business systems as being THE way to efficiently operate and run any successful business.
Part of any business system or procedure is collecting data on performance for those systems, this is so critical that it must [...]
Saturday, November 17, 2007
I am about to settle in for a rather exciting day of watching college football as it is one of the biggest weekends of the year in college football when Ohio State takes on Michigan. Well maybe it’s just big for those who follow either of those teams.
Now I really like sports and used to [...]
Monday, November 12, 2007
So when do or when should you start making continuous improvements to your business? That’s a good question. Let’s break it down into a very simple method.
To even start making improvements you have to have some sort of system in place and having it “in your head” won’t cut the mustard. I am a big [...]
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
One of the key concepts to come out of kaizen and lean business practices is constantly evaluating processes to eradicate waste. You see waste is a money sucker, when it occurs it is literally draining money and profit from your business. When you get rid of waste profit goes up.
So what is waste exactly? These [...]