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Customers, Respect & Value: Lean Muppets Post 9

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Jim Benson

Respect is a fundamental value in Lean Profit in business comes from repeat customers; customers that boast about your product and service, and that bring friends with them. ~ W. Edwards Deming Everyone has been in this position before.  You’re … Continue reading →

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Failure Demand and Unthoughtful Production: Lean Muppet Series Post 2

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Jim Benson

The Ernie Production Unit and the Bert Client Clash Over Delivered Value Ernie and Bert have issues. Because Ernie and Bert are archetypes. They represent the Yin and Yang of the Human condition. It is reasonable to expect that anyone … Continue reading →

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WIP: The Kidzban Book

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Tonianne DeMaria Barry

My dad was magical. When I was growing up, he turned everything into a game – studying, yard work, even combatting my fear of the Wicked Witch of the West. “Life should be fun!” he’d insist, invoking his own father’s … Continue reading →

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Inventory Makes Work

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Jim Benson

Lean talks a lot about inventory. A major tenet of Lean is to reduce inventory. Companies that stock up on too much stuff have to maintain that stuff, manage it, and then deal with it when it is no longer … Continue reading →

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Boosting Productivity and Learning with Spikes

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Jim Benson

Is there something you don’t know? Almost everyday it seems we are faced with having to learn something new. Some of those things are trivial and easy to accomplish, while others are important and a more than a little daunting … Continue reading →

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