Paul left a couple of comments recently that caught my attention: HELP! My company has been "attempting" 5s for several years now,and have recently begun rolling it out once again after stopping it a few years back. My problem is this: We seem totally...

We're celebrating the one year anniversary of Gemba Academy! I would first like to thank joint venture partners Factory Strategies Group and Lean Six Sigma Academy for all of the dedication and effort. Together we have created over 30 hours of online...

The spring cleaning continues. My research library is an embarrassment of riches. Old notes and unfinished files hide in the shame of abundance. More the worse, no matter how much knowledge is shared its abundance only increases. Luckily our capacity...

Lean thinker Paul Akers, founder and President of FastCap is a high energy guy. How else would he run his company, run for U.S. Senate and host The American Innovator, a weekly talk radio program? How does he do it? He asks people for their help, he...

Interesting articles of information continue to surface as the spring cleaning progresses at the Gemba office. Today's find was a page from an interview with Fujio Cho. As the CEO of Toyota he had summarized the the desired ways of thinking and acting...