Tag: Consultant

Management Web Sites and Resources

• Gemba Panta Rei by Jon Miller
  Great blog on lean manufacturing topics by Jon Miller.

• Smarter Solutions by Forrest W. Breyfogle III
  Consultant focused on six sigma improvement with articles available on various topics.

• Associates in Process Improvement
  Consulting firm with Provost, Langley, Norman, Moen and Nolan. Authors of the excellent: Improvement Guide. Several very good articles on variation available on the site.

• Jamie Flinchbaugh by Jamie Flinchbaugh
  Blog on lean culture, transformational leadership, and entrepreneurial excellence. Jamie is a consultant and co-author of The Hitchhiker.s Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road.

• Lean Six Sigma Academy by Ron Pereira
  Blog by Ron Pereira explaining how I believe lean manufacturing and six sigma can and should work together in harmony.

• Evolving Excellence by Kevin Meyer, Bill Waddell
  Excellent and opinionated blog focused on lean manufacturing by Kevin Meyer and Bill Waddell.

• Peter Scholtes by Peter R. Scholtes
  Web site of Peter Scholtes, author of The Leader's Handbook (an excellent book) and The Team Handbook. The site offers several excellent management articles. He taught with Deming. Peter was a good friend and his management ideas are well worth studying.

• Timeback Management by Daniel Markovitz
  Blog by Dan Markovitz on lean thinking and how managers can properly allocate their time.

• Lean Enterprise Institute by Jim Womack
  "We carefully develop hypotheses about lean thinking and experiment to see which approaches work best in the real world. We then write up and teach what we discover, providing new methods for organizational transformation. We strive to answer the simple question of every manager, "What can I do on Monday morning to make a difference in my organization?" And, by creating a strong Lean Community through our website and public events we try to give managers the courage to become lean change agents."

• Shmula by Peter Abilla
  "This blog is my take on technology, business, operations, The Toyota Production System / Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Queueing Theory, operations research, building software, the customer experience (especially ethnography and design thinking and word-of-mouth marketing)"

• Gotta Go Lean by Jeff Hajek
  "The Gotta Go Lean Blog focuses on Lean at the front line. We help managers and employees work together to make Lean more productive for the company, and jobs more satisfying for workers."

• How to implement Lean Thinking in a Business by Tracey Richardson
  Blog by a trainer for Toyota and consultant.

• PQ Systems
  Software and services provider related to SPC tools. The site includes a blog.

• Langford for Learning by David P. Langford
  Quality learning achieved through continual improvement of systems which aim to produce the optimum state of personal, social, physical, and intellectual development within each individual. It is a commitment to excellence by each individual and is achieved through teamwork and a process of continual improvement and/or redesign. The site includes worthwhile articles.

• Leading Agile by Mike Cottmeyer
  

• Designing Kaizen
  Website for lean management trainer with blog.

• Dave Nave by Dave Nave
  

• Effective Innovation by Bill Kappele
  Blog by Bill Kappele on design of experiments and statistics.

• Lean Blitz
  Looks at lean ideas related specifically to sports organizations and sports small businesses