Make Your Business Lean

Value stream mapping is a really important tool for COOs. It helps them to see how their organization works, spot areas of waste, and decide how to improve. Creating a map of the value stream gives COOs insights into their business. They can use this to see where they can cut waste, reduce wait times, and […]

Lean is a journey. If you’re like most companies, your lean journey starts in manufacturing with something simple like a 5-S program and then moves on to more difficult lean tools like analyzing your value streams and then eventually reorganizing your whole supply chain. This is all great stuff but when are you done? What […]

It may be a lot easier than you think to create a lean ISO quality system, and it will save you an untold amount of work (and grief) later on.

How can you beat a simplified production system that costs less, satisfies customers more, and takes the headaches out of management?

It may be when Lean and Six Sigma are used in combination that companies will see the biggest, longest lasting payoffs.