Wayne Chaneski President
On the Right Track to Continuous Improvement
This company’s focus on four important areas has already strengthened operations and should continue to impact its future success.
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Reducing Waste in Your Operations
This three-step approach can help you streamline the eight major activities in your operation that don’t provide value to your customers.
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Are You Really “Running” Your Business?
It’s not difficult to find out. Talk to your employees, apply meaningful metrics and follow up. Because what you don’t know can hurt you.
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Benefits of a Kaizen Event
These continuous improvement efforts can impact all areas of an organization.
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Planning a Continuous Improvement Event
Kaizen events have proven to be effective in generating improvements in all kinds of organizations. Advance planning will make them even more effective.
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Lessons in Leadership from The Duke
Four character measures outlined in a recent biography of actor John Wayne are at the core of what makes an effective manager.
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More Stories from the Lean Workplace
Maybe these strategies can make your company more efficient, too.
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Commit to Success
Continuous improvement is vital for remaining competitive. Committing to it across the organization is equally important.
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Revisiting the Value Stream
Mapping all activities required to produce goods and services, not just some, will reveal more opportunities for continuous improvement.
Read MoreIt’s All About the Process
Since processes drive performance, we need to have the right ones in place.
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Quality Checklists
Using checklists both for job preparation and during the manufacturing process can help achieve required levels of quality.
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Managing Quotes
Job quotes are a pathway to more work, so effectively managing them is a valuable use of company time.
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