VIDEO: Crush Your Performance Evaluation
Many of you went through your year-end evaluation recently. How did it go? Did you crush it? Or did you feel your evaluation was off… Read More »VIDEO: Crush Your Performance Evaluation
Strategic Alignment / Blue Line
SWOT: Rediscover a Classic
Ever go through your closet or toolbox and find something useful you forgot you had—and wound up being glad you did? I suggest you rummage… Read More »SWOT: Rediscover a Classic
The Recipe for My Secret Sauce
No, this isn’t a special holiday cooking edition of the LeanBP Blog! To celebrate the season, I thought I’d share with you the formula… Read More »The Recipe for My Secret Sauce
Go Faster, Produce More—but with Integrity
If you’ve been following my blog regularly, you know that my Lean Applied to Business Processes course is actually the product of what I’ve learned… Read More »Go Faster, Produce More—but with Integrity
Optimizing Without Balance—A Vicious Cycle
It’s counterintuitive to think that maximizing your job or your department’s throughput can have a detrimental effect on your company. But that’s exactly the problem… Read More »Optimizing Without Balance—A Vicious Cycle
Three Warning Signs Your Process Improvement Effort Will Fail
“Constraint: anything that limits a system from achieving higher performance versus its goal.” —Eli Goldratt, What Is This Thing Called Theory of Constraints and How Should… Read More »Three Warning Signs Your Process Improvement Effort Will Fail
SIPOC with a Twist (Think Policies, not Processes)
In order to do your job, you need to see your job. As some of you already know, SIPOC is a process improvement tool that… Read More »SIPOC with a Twist (Think Policies, not Processes)
Mastering Your Circle of Influence
“Do your job!” If you watch football at all, you’ve heard this line before. It’s what coaches tell players when the game gets tight. No… Read More »Mastering Your Circle of Influence