Attitude …

What you do does not define who you are but your attitude while doing it will ~ Redge When someone asks, “Tell me about yourself”, Do you automatically begin by letting them know what you do for a living?  How many times have you heard that “You are not what you do”? This is not a new or radical statement […]

Kaikaku – Radical Change

Lean has been around for a long time and the naming was not Toyota’s idea. The proof of wisdom is in the results. I don’t sell “lean” per se. I am a change agent with a proven track record that speaks for itself. Taking a company out of the red and into the black in a matter of months can’t […]

Timing is Everything – OEE

Timing is everything. A good stop watch is one of the tools any lean practitioner will have close at hand.

I recently purchased an iPhone 6 Plus and decided to browse the App Store to see if I could find a good stop watch app.

…. And I did.

Camtasia 9 – Screen Recording and Video Editing

I upgraded to TechSmith’s Camtasia version 9 today and note some very nice improvements that make producing videos with Camtasia so much faster and easier.  Recording, editing, and creating your video is a simple process, even for novice users.  You can save or share your videos by uploading them to Screencast.com, Vimeo, YouTube, Facebook, and more. It is so much easier […]

The Point of No Return

Tricks of the Trade   Work smarter not harder! If we’re honest with ourselves, we realize that sometimes we have a tendency to make things more difficult than they need to be. A statistics guru once asked me why a sample size of five (5) is commonly used when plotting X-Bar / Range charts. I didn’t really […]

Pro SQL Server Relational Database Design and Implementation

My copy of the book “ProSQL Server Relational Database Design and Implementation , 5th Edition” by Louis Davidson with Jessica Moss arrived this week.  I’m excited to work my way through it. A well designed database will significantly increase the performance of your database and greatly improve your ability to write efficient and effective SQL queries.  From a lean perspective, an […]