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Inside Amazon: Why Process Engineers Are Guides, Not Sages

Inside Amazon: Why Process Engineers Are Guides, Not Sages Most companies build their continuous improvement programs the wrong way. They train a single green belt or black belt and expect that one person to fix everything. However, studying Six Sigma principles in...

Beyond the Shiny Kanban: Driving a Real EBITDA Explosion

Beyond the Shiny Kanban: Driving a Real EBITDA Explosion Most business leaders believe they are running a lean operation. However, if your Kanban cards are still moving to the beat of unstable MRP lead times, you are not pulling. You are running a heavily masked push...

Why Continuous Improvement Leaders Pick Crap Projects

Why Continuous Improvement Leaders Pick Crap Projects Most continuous improvement programs fail within 18 months. The reason is almost always the same: leadership started by avoiding bad Six Sigma projects the wrong way. Instead of using data, they used gut feeling....

Fear and Loathing: The Danger of Numerical Goals

Fear and Loathing: The Danger of Numerical Goals In this episode of the Why They Fail Podcast, we take on one of the biggest traps in modern management: the obsession with numerical goals.Dr. W. Edwards Deming warned against this decades ago in his famous Point 11,...

How Lean Six Sigma Transformed a City Govt.

How Lean Six Sigma Transformed a City Govt. Can Lean Six Sigma principles truly revolutionize municipal operations? This episode delves into the remarkable success story of Fort Wayne, Indiana, exploring how continuous improvement in city...