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In my Wing Chun training, my Sifu emphasizes the "learn as you go" philosophy — that is, I learn the material slowly, but my way of learning is also emerging — that is my capability to learn gets better. This notion is very much what I also experienced at Toyota. Today, I want to explicate on the Toyota notion of how the Gemba is the Dojo.
Let me first explain Gemba and Dojo, before explicating how one relates to the other…
In a previous post on Ethnography, I invited Aza Raskin, founder of Humanized, a company that designs more humane products — from consumer packaged goods to software interfaces — and, son of Jef Raskin, the inventor of the Macintosh and author of The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
In a previous post on Ethnography, I invited Aza Raskin, founder of Humanized, a company that designs more humane products — from consumer packaged goods to software interfaces — and, son of Jef Raskin, the inventor of the Macintosh and author of The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
In a previous post on Ethnography, I invited Aza Raskin, founder of Humanized, a company that designs more humane products — from consumer packaged goods to software interfaces — and, son of Jef Raskin, the inventor of the Macintosh and author of The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
I recently started studying Wing Chun. I had previously taken martial arts — about 12 years ago. I studied juijitsu and a little arnis; in juijitsu, I obtained my blue belt, but since then, I haven’t done any martial arts. I am very excited to be studying Wing Chun and feel honored to be connected to the Wing Chun lineage of Bruce Lee.
My sifu is Carlos Colorado and his sifu is Master Ron Heimberger. Master Heimberger studied under Grandmaster Ip Ching the son of Grandmaster Ip Man, who taught Bruce Lee — I’m honored to be part of a rich martial arts lineage.
I have accepted a board position at iSixSigma Magazine. This is typically a one year, nominated position; I’m honored and look forward to contributing.
If you are not currently a subscriber to the magazine, I’d seriously consider it: compared to other publications on quality, I consider iSixSigma to be above par. The magazine has ~6,000 subscribers and a readership of about ~23,000. There are a lot of companies that subscribe to the magazine.
I would love feedback on the types of articles you would find valuable. Let me know; your feedback can help set the direction of the magazine.
Suppose you were presented with the following:
"You have been hired to help a fast food franchise, a market leader in the South West Region of the U.S. This franchise collects and reports on a metric they call "scrap rate". Scrap Rate has been increasing for the previous 3 quarters for this 60 store franchise. This problem was costing this franchise ~ $35K/month.
Using Lean and/or the DMAIC framework, please help this firm solve the "Scrap Rate" problem. Feel free to use paper, calculator, whiteboard, and to ask me questions. What’s going on with Scrap Rate?"
Back by popular demand, I’ve updated the ajax, draggable timeline of mergers & acquisitions completed by Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Amazon.
The timeline only looks at mergers and acquisitions from 2000 on, not before. Click on the image below and Enjoy!
For articles on queueing theory, time-traps, operations, lean and six sigma, please visit the links below:
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