Continuing on with our 5S in five days series, it’s time to take the next step and go over another major piece of getting the workplace organized and that is straightening or putting in order all of the items that are left behind and used to perform work after sorting out the unneeded garbage.
Essentially straighten [...]
Good housekeeping is one of the best things to do to help facilitate a neat and orderly work environment that is conducive to continuous improvement and kaizen. Let’s briefly look at the first S in 5S; sort.
Sorting out the necessary and unnecessary items is your first task, this means it’s time to go out and [...]
As a followup to the complicated software post here are a few tips to use that will reduce the complexity of software while increasing the quality or robustness… I have been involved in a lot of program development one way or the next and these are obvious yet major stumbling blocks most people simply can’t [...]
Coming from a tech background from time to time I tend to read up a little with what is going on in that industry, one rather amusing blog I stumbled upon recently makes some interesting claims about the dominant software provider. Here is the URL:
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/06/thinking-more-about-microsoft.html
Now I am not going to nor have any interest to [...]
I am sure you noticed a minor change to the blog last month, that was the addition of the “popunder” box to sign up to receive a brief email each time a new blog entry is posted… not terribly exciting… however.
I decided to experiment with the popunder a little to see if it could be [...]
I just wrapped up the book Internet Integrity by Terry Dean.
One thing you may have noticed is I don’t usually do book reviews, however I resonate with a lot of what Terry is all about and teaches in his book and blog. There is just so much garbage floating around the ‘net by people trying [...]
Well it appears I have been tagged by Ed Rivis to list seven things you don’t know about me…
However I am going to cut the list down to five things:
1. I don’t watch TV. I recently read an interesting statistic that on average a person spends a total of 11 years watching television.
2. I [...]
Here are three simple tools to help you get a handle on just any business process. Each has a different look and a different purpose however each can be used as an excellent way to start continuous improvement:
IPO Diagram (Input Process Output)
Draw a box, this represents the process or place like a workstation where a [...]
With one run using the random number generator at random.org, it came up with the number 6. So comment number 6 is the big winner and it looks like Mary gets the suprise… a book titled… The Goal.
Mary go ahead and leave your address in a comment to this post (don’t worry it won’t be [...]