Podcasts about lean strategy

Deborah shares her personal experience with running a business, discussing mistakes she made and lessons learned. Listen in as she provides advice to her listeners on eliminating inefficiencies: stop to reassess the situation, focus on generating value rather than managing activities, and view the organization with a fresh perspective, identifying valuable versus wasteful processes. The episode ends with an offer to her listeners to reach out to her for support and advice on making their organizations more efficient and healthy.   Episode Highlights: 03:37 The Journey to Clarity and Self-awareness 05:03 Practical Advice for Leaders: Three Key Insights 08:24 The Role of a Coach in Navigating Leadership Challenges 09:09 The Impact of Lean Leadership on Personal Life   Whether you are a C-Suite Leader of today or tomorrow, take charge of your career with confidence and leverage the insights of The CEO's Compass: Your Guide to Get Back on Track.  To learn more about The CEO's Compass, you can get your copy here: https://amzn.to/3AKiflR    Other episodes you'll enjoy: C-Suite Goal Setting: How To Create A Roadmap For Your Career Success - http://bit.ly/3XwI55n Natalya Berdikyan: Investing in Yourself to Serve Others on Apple Podcasts -http://bit.ly/3ZMx8yw Questions to Guarantee You Accomplish Your Goals - http://bit.ly/3QASvymSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Ta-Tanisha and Deborah discuss how to navigate challenges as a business leader and the importance of being heard as a technical leader. Listen in as they also explore how to tackling toxic work environments, and debate the trend of younger generations changing jobs every two years. Other key themes touched upon include mentorship, authenticity in leadership, and the concept of ageism in the professional realm.    Episode Highlights: 12:30 Navigating the Job Market: The New Reality 19:52 Surviving in a Toxic Work Environment 25:16 The Art of Managing Up 27:40 The Art of Conversation and Building Rapport 28:27 The Importance of Continuous Improvement and Asking Questions 28:47 Overcoming Frustrations and Pushing Past Comfort Zones 33:46 The Struggle with Imposter Syndrome 36:11 The Impact of Authenticity in the Workplace 42:29 The Challenge of Ageism and Reinventing Yourself   Ta-Tanisha, a dynamic executive professional with a proven track record in training and development. With extensive experience in program development, presentation, and outcome evaluation, Ta-Tanisha is skilled at improving business operations through strategic training initiatives.   As a certified quality assurance professional, Ta-Tanisha is committed to promoting a positive work culture while minimizing risks and financial losses.   If you would like to connect to Ta-Tanisha, reach out to Deborah on Linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahacoviello/    Whether you are a C-Suite Leader of today or tomorrow, take charge of your career with confidence and leverage the insights of The CEO's Compass: Your Guide to Get Back on Track.  To learn more about The CEO's Compass, you can get your copy here: https://amzn.to/3AKiflR    Other episodes you'll enjoy: C-Suite Goal Setting: How To Create A Roadmap For Your Career Success - http://bit.ly/3XwI55n Natalya Berdikyan: Investing in Yourself to Serve Others on Apple Podcasts -http://bit.ly/3ZMx8yw Questions to Guarantee You Accomplish Your Goals - http://bit.ly/3QASvymSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Deborah shares insights on transforming businesses through Lean Leadership strategies. She underscores the importance of starting with a leadership efficiency strategy to eliminate non-value-adding activities and flip the pyramid around towards creating value for customers. Deb further recommends taking a proactive approach and addressing issues in the early stages of an initiative, focusing right from management practices to fixing conditions and minimizing performance hindrances at the workplace. She encourages her audience to reassess their leadership approach and set decisive plans in motion to achieve business efficiencies without resorting to after-the-fact fixes or substantial monetary investments.   Episode Highlights: 01:22 The Importance of Leadership Efficiency in Lean Initiatives 02:48 The Role of Root Cause Analysis in Identifying Management Practices 04:19 The Impact of Management Practices on Workplace Efficiency 07:12 The Value of Lean Strategies from the Beginning of Any Initiative   Whether you are a C-Suite Leader of today or tomorrow, take charge of your career with confidence and leverage the insights of The CEO's Compass: Your Guide to Get Back on Track.  To learn more about The CEO's Compass, you can get your copy here: https://amzn.to/3AKiflR    Other episodes you'll enjoy: C-Suite Goal Setting: How To Create A Roadmap For Your Career Success - http://bit.ly/3XwI55n Natalya Berdikyan: Investing in Yourself to Serve Others on Apple Podcasts -http://bit.ly/3ZMx8yw Questions to Guarantee You Accomplish Your Goals - http://bit.ly/3QASvymSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Blog post From the post: This is really hard to write, as I was stunned and saddened by the recent passing of a good friend and colleague, Chris Burnham. Word had started to spread on LinkedIn and I feel bad about having to share this news here. You can read his obituary here: There will be a celebration of life event on Sunday that I will be fortunate to attend. Chris was, most recently, the Senior Director of Lean Strategy at KaiNexus, a company I have been involved with since 2011. Many of his colleagues will also be there to pay our respects, to honor him, and to support his loved ones. I say this with all sincerity that Chris was one of my favorite people in the Lean community. I appreciated his positive and thoughtful approach to Lean and to our work. We shared a love of discovering new Bourbons to share and discuss, which then lubricated the social fun and work discussions. Christopher Burnham Obituary --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lean-blog-audio/support

Today on the podcast, I'm talking with Michael Ballé, a business writer, executive coach, organizational researcher and Lean expert with 30 years of experience. In this episode, Michael and I talk about how you can use Lean strategy in your organization and how it can give you an advantage and how Lean can be applied to product development. What You'll Learn This Episode: How Lean is a strategy How it gives companies a competitive advantage to use Lean as a strategy Michael's book The Lean Strategy How companies should be interpreting TPS and applying it How Lean applies to product development Lean hypergrowth Successes that the operational excellence community was able to achieve About the Guest: Michael Ballé, PhD., is a business writer, executive coach and organizational researcher. He has studied lean transformations for the past 30 years and helped CEOs to grow their own lean cultures. He is the co-author of the bestselling Goldmine trilogy - The Gold Mine, The Lean Manager, Lead With Respect - The Lean Strategy, The Lean Sensei and Lead With Lean among other titles. His work has been translated in 10 languages and has received four Shingo Research and Publication awards. He is the co-founder of Institute Lean France and Business Dynamics collection director at L'Harmattan. Important Links: https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Strategy-Competitive-Innovation-Sustainable/dp/1259860426 http://theleanstrategy.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leansolutions/support

This week on the podcast, I'm talking with Chris Burnham. Chris has twenty years of experience with learning and coaching Lean and Continuous Improvement principles and his career has spanned a variety of roles from front-line servant leader to responsibility for Global Continuous Improvement Programs. Chris is also the host of The Lean Leadership Podcast. In this episode, Chris and I talk about growing technology in Lean and continuous improvement and how leaders and teams can adapt to the changes. What You'll Learn This Episode: How leaders and technology can work together What makes a great lean leader and how leaders are changing What it take for organizations to see Process Improvement as a necessary part of the organization Diagnosing when technology is holding back your organization when it comes to continuous improvement Why you need to be adaptive How technology is changing the work environment About the Guest: Chris Burnham has twenty years of experience with learning and coaching Lean and Continuous Improvement principles. His career has spanned a variety of roles from front-line servant leader to responsibility for Global Continuous Improvement Programs. Chris has had the opportunity to work with a diverse group of industries, including manufacturing and fulfillment, financial services, food and beverage, and medical devices. Many of the companies that Chris has worked with are brands that you would recognize every day. Chris' passion is helping organizations and teams build cultures of problem solvers that engage every employee in the work of improvement. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt and holds his B.S. from Western Carolina University. Chris has been the host of The Lean Leadership Podcast since 2105. He is currently Senior Director, Lean Strategy at KaiNexus, a software company based in Austin, Texas, whose mission is to Spread Continuous Improvement. Important Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/realburnham IG: @LeanPodcastHost Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/chrisburnham The Lean Leadership Podcast: https://leanleadershippodcast.com KaiNexus: https://kainexus.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leansolutions/support

There are a lot of definitions around LEAN. But implementing it right is easier said than done. Most companies fail to implement LEAN because they focus more on tools than focusing on strategy. It's a change in thinking, the way you do your business. It's the kind of SOPs you want to follow in your business and how flexible you want to be around those SOPs. The less variability and leaner operations you have, the more competitive you will be. If implemented right, Lean would be your competitive advantage.In today's episode, we have our guest Sanjeev Baitmangalkar, who discusses why LEAN is a strategy and thinking and why most companies fail with LEAN as they focus on tools. He also shares several stories of how he implemented Lean at several facilities in various industries. Finally, He shares numerous KPIs and execution strategies to help business executives implement Lean.For more information on growth strategies for SMBs using ERP and digital transformation, visit our community at wbs.rocks or elevatiq.com. To ensure that you never miss an episode of the WBS podcast, subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform.

‘To make products we have to make people’ I’ve been studying that phrase my entire life’ In this episode, Lee is speaking with Michael Balle, bestselling author and executive coach with twenty years of experience in Lean research and practice. Lee and Michael discuss how the ‘lean’ strategy works in business, why it is so different and how it can positively change your business and success. They explore what ‘lean’ is, being people-centric and learning from everyone in this fascinating interview which has something for everyone in business, listen in now to find out how to engage and involve others effectively.   KEY TAKEAWAYS The ‘lean’ strategy Most consultants are obsessed with the idea of the process and they do a blend of reengineering and lean. They look to improve and accelerate the process but it has nothing to do with the people. Brilliant leaders are expected to have a brilliant strategy and execute it. Lean thinkers start not by solving problems but by finding problems. Some problems are structural and they will always be there but if you face them and build your strategy on this thinking you will be altering the way your mindset when approaching problems. We are implicitly taught to be masters of our fate but if we look at the world in a more Asian way we recognise we are challenged by the world around us and it’s about the way in which we respond and how we learn from our responses that develops our thinking. In ‘lean’  the helicopter mode involves looking at a situation with the widest view and then in the minutest detail. The process of moving up and down from the big picture to the smallest detail promotes interaction between management and the people on the front line. Trust When you create trust both elements bring different things and this results everyone being able to see things in a very different way. We are biased to trust people we like and when we meet people we ask ourselves what are the other persons’ intentions towards me? can they carry it out and are they dependable? Growth mindset people think that doing something new and learning is worth doing whilst fixed mindset individuals already think they know everything they need and are concerned with how they are viewed by others. In a team with trust, the individuals will understand the different individual viewpoints.   Problem-solving is the place where trust will happen as a result of people working together and learning to understand each other. The challenge There is a layer of cost in business that is caused by our misconceptions it's not what you don’t know it’s what you think is true that isn’t – your misconceptions. In ‘lean’ you discover your misconceptions.   The key to ‘Lean’ It is a thinking strategy, a cognitive strategy it’s the way you go about solving problems, not the solution you can apply. It’s  a set of tools you can use on yourself to discover things you didn’t know before. In the lean strategy; You begin by finding problems, You face the big problems, You frame them in a way everyone understands, Everyone can participate in solving the problems. It’s a people-centric strategy. It’s a more human way to run companies - people are more engaged and involved in their company. In order to learn you have to treat problems and people as singular,  in doing this you deepen your understanding humanly which gives you new insights. You don’t apply ‘Lean’ you practise ‘Lean thinking’ and you see your own perspective on things change radically.   BEST MOMENTS ‘The bottom-up or top-down approach is completely in the old paradigm’ ‘Every Lean tool in Toyota is a tool to help you think more deeply about the problem. When you learn to think more deeply about the problem you can think more deeply about everything else’ ‘We could teach everyone to think differently in order to be able to solve the problems’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Business Problems Solved Podcast The lean Strategy book by Michael Balle, Daniel Jones, Jacques Chaize, Orest Fiume The Lean Strategy website   ABOUT THE HOST For the last 15 years, I have been a multi-sector internal or external business improvement consultant, building the improved capability of individuals, teams and businesses. In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my two young children Jack & India. I also enjoy listening to and reading business & personal development material. Lee Houghton is “THE Business Problem Solver”, a Management Consultant, CX Specialist and Keynote Speaker.   CONTACT METHOD You can contact Lee Houghton on 07813342194 Lee@leehoughton.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/lhoughton/        

https://leanblog.org/audio276 "Over the past year, I've heard about the “OKRs” methodology that is used in tech companies like Google. OKRs stands for Objectives & Key Results. The approach (along with examples and case studies) are laid out in the book by venture capitalist John Doerr, Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs." There are things I like about this model... and it reminds me of the Lean "Strategy deployment" practice... but I think it would be better with "Process Behavior Charts." #okrs #OKR #leanstartup #leanmanagement #business --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lean-blog-audio/support

Jason Burt, a global expert in lean process, shares insights from Toyota's pioneering approach to reliability that can be used to improve the performance of any business. Learn how to apply the principals of lean in your business to reduce waste and maximize your capacity for growth.

This week's guest is Michael Ballé. Michael recently co-authored a new book, The Lean Strategy. Ron and Michael discussed the contents of the book and why the idea of lean as a strategy is so controversial. An MP3 version of this episode is available for download here. In this episode you'll learn: Michael's background (5:41) The quote that inspires Michael (10:39) The thinking behind The Lean Strategy (11:38) Why this idea is such a "hot button" issue (18:40) What people miss when it comes to lean (23:43) The changes the authors would make (30:19) Michael's favorite chapter (33:07) The best way to read The Lean Strategy (34:16) Other books Michael recommends (34:58) Podcast Resources Right Click to Download this Podcast as an MP3 Download a Free Audio Book at Audible.com The Lean Strategy  The Lean Strategy on Amazon Michael's Masterclass  Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst  Michael on LinkedIn Michael on Twitter Michael's Email Join Us at AME Boston The 2017 International AME Conference is taking place in Boston from October 9th to the 13th. Come meet the Gemba Academy team and experience the world's largest lean and continuous improvement conference. Use promo code Gemba10 to receive 10% off your registration. Learn more here. We're also having our annual AME cocktail party, and this year the location is pretty spectacular. RSVP here. Subscribe & Never Miss New Episodes! Click to Subscribe in iTunes If you enjoyed this podcast please be sure to subscribe on iTunes. Once you're a subscriber all new episodes will be downloaded to your iTunes account and smartphone. The easiest way for iPhone users to listen to the show is via the free, and incredible, Podcast app. You can download it here. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the Gemba Academy podcast on iTunes. You can also subscribe via Stitcher which is definitely Android friendly. What Do You Think? Is lean a strategy? Why or why not?

Joining me for Episode #265 of the podcast is Bernita Beikmann, AIA, EDAC, LSSBB, a Principal and Director of Lean Strategy at HKS, an international architecture firm. Bernita is originally from Kansas and has a Bachelor of Architecture from Kansas State University and a Certificate in Regional and Community Planning. She moved to Dallas in 1996 and has been employed by HKS, Inc in Dallas since that time. We first crossed paths when we had the opportunity to work together on a project for Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis to work with staff and leaders on designing parts of a new patient tower. You can read a bit about that work here. I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Did you ever wonder how some individuals are so successful that they actually change the world? Are you trying to change your world by starting a new business? Today we talk about combing strategy and entrepreneurship, the dynamic duo of business success. We’ll be pulling a little information from Lean Strategy by David Collins. Harvard Business Review, March 2016.