Deondra Wardelle: PDCA the Vote: Ready…Set…VOTE!
PDCA the Vote: Ready…Set…VOTE! 📢🗳️National Vote Early Day is Here—Are You Ready to Vote?🗳️📢 Today, October 29th, marks National Vote Early Day, a perfect time to beat Election Day rushes! …
The Edges of Lean — Ep 135 Time Optimization with David Buck
What’s the only thing we all have the same amount of? It’s the number of hours in our day. We live in a culture that is focused on productivity, …
The Lean Solutions Podcast: Helping Local Government Leaders “Manage Meteors”
What You’ll Learn: In this episode, hosts Shayne Daughenbaugh, Catherine McDonald, and guest Shane Silsby discuss the difficulties of managing limited resources in local government, such as budget constraints and …
Lean Blog Audio — Just Call it “5S Six Sigma” Instead of “Lean Sigma” Please
Blog post My whole career, I have worked with the Lean methodology (aka the Toyota Production System). I’ve just really never done much with Six Sigma. I’ve read about Six …
My Favorite Mistake — 282: How Christine King Went from Welfare to Pioneering Female CEO in Semiconductors
My guest for Episode #282 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Christine “Chris” King, who defied the odds as a single mother in the 1970s, rising to become the world’s first …
My Favorite Mistake — Unsubscribed: Why Political Texts Won’t Leave You Alone, with State Sen. Stephanie Pitcher
In this special bonus episode of My Favorite Mistake, Mark Graban sits down with Senator Stephanie Pitcher, a criminal defense attorney (at Parker & McConkie in Utah) and Utah state …
Lean Six Sigma for Good Podcast — E117: Transforming Healthcare with Lean Six Sigma – Interview with Sarah Cook
In this episode, I interviewed Sarah Cook, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt consultant from Pepper Foster Consulting in Portland, Oregon. She shares her journey from the VA medical center to becoming a performance engineer in healthcare.
Lean Blog Audio — Lean Failure Explained: When Command-and-Control Leadership Sabotages Success
How Often Does This Happen? Read the blog post It’s a story I’ve heard too many times. An organization spends years, even decades, entrenched in a top-down, command-and-control culture. In …
Lean Six Sigma Bursts: E112: Lean Six Sigma for Good
In the last 2 episodes, I shared best practices in process improvement with students in the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Executive MBA Program in Boca Raton, Florida. At the end …
KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Podcast — The 7 Steps of Hoshin Kanri (or Hoshin Planning)
Read the blog post The process you use to develop your strategic plan is as important as the plan itself. Many organizations adopt the Hoshin Kanri method (also known as Hoshin Planning …