eta consulting has collaborated with Extended Studies, University of Nevada, Reno to deliver a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification class since 2016. Earlier this month, eta took fourteen Green…
Moss Adams and eta consulting conducted a webinar on using Toyota’s Lean methods to improve processes and employee capability. During that webinar, a number of questions asked via chat went…
Kaizens are five-day high-energy, high-impact events where 6-10 people examine a process, redesign it to reduce Lean waste, test it, and deploy it for use the following week. Kaizens emphasize…
Hiroyuki Hirano lays out the approach to 5S in great detail and with great clarity. The book is filled with beautiful explanations like this diagram that bring scalable logic to…
Daniel J. Levitin explains organization via cognitive neuroscience principles, adding data and detail to many lean concepts along the way. Worker autonomy is called out as key to creativity. ‘The…
“Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. . . They are the questions with no answers . . . it is questions with…
Much of lean practice centers around the elimination of waste. What precedes that is some training in the detection of waste, usually categorized under the eight lean wastes, viz., Defects, Overproduction,…
Sir Ken Robinson considers what a revolution in education might look like. His declared goal is to eliminate drop-out in schools, but the ideas may be universally applicable to all…
Ray Dalio talks about his life and the building of Bridgewater, the largest hedge fund (by assets) at $100+ billion. Many of his ideas mirror lean concepts. Here he talks…
In “Hit Refresh” Microsoft’s third CEO, Indian-American Satya Nadella grapples with the notion of automation-related increases in productivity eliminating jobs. He is optimistic about the future of human work. “Finally,…
