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  • 51st Edition
  • "A Review of the Template for Starting a Successful Lean Journey"

  • 50th Edition
  • "Lean and Training Within Industry (TWI)"
  • 49th Edition
  • "The Challenge of Empowerment" and "Is Your Organization Ready to Implement Lean?"
  • 48th Edition
  • "How Successful are American Organizations in Deploying Lean?" and "Is Your Leadership Team Ready to Implement Lean?"
  • 47th Edition
  • "Human Resources Role in Developing a Lean Culture"
  • 46th Edition
  • "Sustaining Lean"
  • 45th Edition
  • "Lean Policy Deployment - Your Lean Success and Your Journey to Become World Class Depend on it!"
  • 44th Edition
  • "The Misuse of Kaizen Events"
  • 43rd - Edition
  • "Lean "Standard Work" for the decisionmaking process - Choosing By Advantages (CBA)"
  • 42nd Edition
  • "Costed" Value Stream Maps - Focussing Value Stream Improvements
  • 41st Edition
  • "Setup Reduction - Attacking the "Internal" Element of the Setup"
  • 40th Edition
  • "Kanbans - The Type of Signal You Use is Only Limited by your Imagination"
  • 39th Edition
  • "5S Auditing - Some Recommendations and Suggestions "
  • 38th Edition
  • "Developing a Lean Culture - An Elements Checklist (Part 2 of 2)"
  • 37th Edition
  • "Developing a Lean Culture - An Elements Checklist (Part 1 of 2)"
  • 36th Edition
  • "Considerations & Guidelines for Starting a TPM Implementation "
  • 35th Edition
  • "How to Make Structured Problem Solving Part of Your Organization's Culture" and
    "The 4th and 5th of Five Strategies for Competing in the U.S. and the Global Economy for SMMs - Innovation; Within Boundaries, and Clean Sheet of Paper"
  • 34th Edition
  • "Optimizing Your 5S Implementation - Some Thoughts and Considerations" and "The Third of Five Strategies for Competing in the U.S. and the Global Economy for Small and Medium Size Manufacturers - Strategy #3 -Add/Find Global Niche Markets"
  • 33rd Edition
  • "Combating Can't" and "The Second of Five Strategies for Competing in the U.S. and the Global Economy for Small and Medium Size Organizations (SMMs have < 500 people). Strategy #2 - Moving Left & Right in the Supply Chain Finding More Places to Add Value"
  • 32nd Edition
  • "Do You Want Teamwork in Your Organization? Here are the Four Requirements Necessary for Teamwork to Develop in any Organization" and
    "The First of Five Strategies for Competing in the U.S. and the Global Economy for Small and Medium Size Organizations (SMMs have < 500 people). Strategy #1 - Competing on Price Only"
  • 31st Edition
  • What Happens in an Organization When Top Management Does Not Fully Communicate?" and "Start De-Departmentalizing Now!"
  • 30th Edition
  • "The Four Components of a Successful "Lean as a System" Implementation in Your Organization"
  • 29th Edition
  • "The Importance of Standard Work and Daily Management in Your Journey to Become World Class" and "Team Facilitator - An Essential Role"
  • 28th Edition
  • "Is There a Difference Between Lean and Six Sigma? When Should I Use Lean? When Should I use Six Sigma?" and "As a Follow-up to the Last Newsletter - What do You do When the Company does all the Right Things and You Still have a Brick Wall to Change?"
  • 27th Edition
  • "Dealing with "Resistance to Lean" at the Supervisory and Middle Management Levels"
  • 26th Edition
  • "Lean in a "Job Shop" or "Engineered to Order" Environment" and "The Lean Leader Coach Series Continues with "Employee Empowerment" Part IV"
  • 25th Edition
  • "Kaizen Event Steps Outline" and
    The Lean Leader Coach Series Continues with "Employee Empowerment" Part III
  • 24th Edition
  • The Lean Leader Coach Series Continues with "Employee Empowerment" Part II and
    "Value Stream Mapping -- Guidelines and Rules to Making Your VSM Event Successful"
  • 23rd Edition
  • "Policy Deployment -- The Most Powerful Lean Activity Your Organization Will Ever Accomplish" and "The Lean Leader Coach Series Continues with 'The Empowerment Challenge' Part I"
  • 22nd Edition
  • "The Lean Leader Coach Series -
    Expectations of the Leader" and "A3 Problem Solving - What it is ... and isn't"
  • 21st Edition
  • "14 Considerations/Guidelines/Rules When Implementing Kanbans" and
    "Administrative Processing Cells - A Powerful Lean Tool for the Office!"
  • 20th Edition
  • "Why Lean Failures Occur - Reason #1: Lack of Top Management Leadership and Support " and "The Lean Leader Coach - "Walking the Talk - Part III"
  • 19th Edition
  • "Why Lean Failures Occur - Reason #2: Lack of Communication (Part III of III)" and "The Lean Leader Coach - Walking the Talk - Part II"
  • 18th Edition
  • "Why Lean Failures Occur - Reason #2: Lack of Communication (Part II of III)" and "The Lean Leader Coach - Walking the Talk"
  • 17th Edition
  • "Why Lean Failures Occur - Reason #2: Lack of Communication (Part I of III)" and "The Lean Leader Coach - Implementing New Ideas"
  • 16th Edition
  • "Why Lean Failures Occur - Reason #3: Lack of Supervisor and Middle Management Buy-In" and "The Lean Leader Coach - Communication Skills - Part IV "
  • 15th Edition
  • "Can American Businesses Compete Globally?"
  • 14th Edition
  • "Not Understanding That Lean is About Developing Your People" and "The Lean Leader Coach - Communication Skills Part 3"
  • 13th Edition
  • "The Lean Leader Coach - Communication Skills Part 2" and "Reason #5 - Lack of Customer Focus"
  • 12th Edition
  • "The Lean Leader Coach - Communication Skills Part 1" and "Reason #6 - Lack of Improvement Measurements"
  • 11th Edition
  • "The Lean Leader Coach Introduction" & "Reason #7 - Lack of Lean Leadership"
  • 10th Edition
  • "People Measures Not Aligned with the Organization's World Class Enterprise Goals" and "Team Facilitator - An Essential Role"
  • 9th Edition
  • "Lean is a System, Not an Event" and "Team Killing 101"
  • 8th Edition
  • "Daily Management (continued)" and "Why Lean Failures Occur - Reason #10"
  • 7th Edition
  • "The Challenge of Empowerment" and "Daily Management"
  • 6th Edition
  • "Combating Can't" and "Measure Only Those Things You Wish to Improve"
  • 5th Edition
  • "Misusing Value Stream Mapping" and "Kanbans are Powerful"
  • 4th Edition
  • "All Value Added Work is a Process" and "Empowerment = Lean Success When it is Preceded by Leadership and Communication"
  • 3rd Edition
  • "The Misuse of Kaizen Events" and "Developing Behavioral Expectations for your Associates"
  • 2nd Edition
  • "The Four Requirements for Teamwork to Occur in any Organization" and "What Happens When You Don't Communicate"
  • 1st Edition
  • "The Four Components of Lean" and "Start De-Departmentalizing Now!"
 
 
WCM Associates "Lean Construction" Newletter Archive
  • Construction Edition #26
  • "Identifying Construction Waste" and " "Waste Identification and Morale"

  • Construction Edition #25
  • "Last Planner is not Lean!" and "Eliminating Waste in Accounting and IT"
  • Construction Edition #24
  • "Breaking the Paradigm: Rethinking the GC and Subcontractor Relationship" and "Is Lean Culture Measurable?"
  • Construction Edition #23
  • "The Hidden Face of Waste" and ""Costed" Value Stream Maps - Focusing Value Stream Improvements"
  • Construction Edition #22
  • "Lean Construction Partnering Opportunities" and "The Start of a Successful Lean Construction Journey"
  • Construction Edition #21
  • "Human Resources' Role
    in Developing
    a Lean Culture" and "Lean - Simply Easy to Do"
  • Construction Edition #20
  • "WANTED: Teamwork (Part 3 of 3)" and "Solving The Weakest Link in Construction"
  • Construction Edition #19
  • "WANTED: Teamwork (Part 2)" and "Keeping Your Best Employees"
  • Construction Edition #18
  • "WANTED: Teamwork" and "Managing Job-Site Inventories with Kanbans (kahn-bahns)"
  • Construction Edition #17
  • "Best Practices for doing Pull Planning" and "Is Your Organization Ready to Implement Lean?"
  • Construction Edition #16
  • "Material Handling on a Construction Jobsite" and "Lean and Training Within Industry (TWI)"
  • Construction Edition #15
  • "Some Lean History" and "Go and See!"
  • Construction Edition #14
  • "Feeling the Fuel Pinch" and "Kanbans (kahn-bahns) - What They Are and How They Work"
  • Construction Edition #13
  • "Don't Stop at Four -
    the 5th "S" is Critical" and "The Four Components of a Successful Lean Construction Implementation"
  • Construction Edition #12
  • "Waiting Time Waste" and "Value Stream Mapping: Guidelines and Rules to Make Your VSM Event Successful"
  • Construction Edition #11
  • "14 Ways to Improve Construction Field Productivity" and "Optimizing Your 5S Implementation - Some Thoughts and Considerations"
  • Construction Edition #10
  • "Lessons of the Square Watermelon" and "Lean Construction Supply Chain Thinking"
  • Construction Edition #9
  • "Communicating the Lean Way" and
    "Sustaining Lean"
  • Construction Edition #8
  • "Reduce Construction Waste with Preplanning" and
    "The 15 Step Outline of a Typical Lean Kaizen Event "
  • Construction Edition #7
  • "The Complete Master Schedule as Part of Lean Project Scheduling (PS)" and
    "The Misuse of Lean Kaizen Events"
  • Construction Edition #6
  • "Stop the Treasure Hunting with the 5S's" and "Choosing By Advantages - Lean "Standard Work" for the decisionmaking process - Part 2 of 2 - Complex Decisions"
  • Construction Edition #5
  • "Lean Project Scheduling (PS)" and
    "Choosing By Advantages - Lean "Standard Work" for the decisionmaking process when there is more than one option"
  • Construction Edition #4
  • "Lean Integrated Project Delivery - The Tools of the Trade - Part II" and
    ""Costed" Value Stream Mapping - Combining Focussed Lean Improvements with Target Value Design (TVD)"

  • Construction Edition #3
  • "Lean Integrated Project Delivery - The Tools of the Trade - Part 1" and
    "The 8th Type of Waste in Lean Construction"
  • Construction Edition #2
  • "Relational Contracting: The Key to Effective Collaboration" and "5S Auditing - Some Recommendations and Suggestions"
  • Construction Edition #1
  • "Lean Integrated Project DeliveryTM: The Results can be Much Better Than the Sum of the Parts" and "5S at the Grunau Company - Lean in the Tool Room"
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Fort Wayne, IN, 46845
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