Team Member Spotlight: Ken “The Tool Man” Allen
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (May 4, 2016) – Many of you may remember the Tim Allen television show “Home Improvement” that featured the fictitious television show “Tool Time” hosted by Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor. Well LEAN Frog has its own very talented tool man named Allen—Ken Allen. Ken has an amazing depth and breadth of tools […]
A Lean Christmas Carol
“Everything is different and yet everything is the same”. This is a phrase I heard a couple of years ago from a man I was helping in reference to a tool he had just borrowed. At the time, I grinned, said ‘yes sir’, and thought that was a silly thing to say. What a major […]
LEAN Frog – Outsourced Continuous Improvement or How We Do It
LEAN Frog has saved school systems in the southeastern United States over $80 million dollars over the last six years. I am often asked by superintendents and school board members how we do it and what exactly we do. These are good questions. Honestly, what we do is very unique, not only in the Southeast, […]
AcceleratED formed to offer K-12 School Systems a Competitive, More Efficient IT Staffing Model
Huntsville, AL – Universal Solutions Initiative (USi), an expert technology and engineering solutions provider and LEAN Frog, a leading continuous improvement solutions provider for public schools, have joined forces to strengthen the IT services offered K12 public education customers. “Working with school systems throughout the Southeast, we’ve often seen a gap between IT services […]
LEAN Frog is Looking for a Few Good Men or Women
Are you beginning your career in Lean Six Sigma? Would you like to do something different from traditional work in manufacturing, finance, or healthcare? How does making a difference in the lives of students in public schools across the southeast sound to you? LEAN Frog is looking to add additional staff to assist […]
10 Lean Six Sigma Sayings, Proverbs, or Just General Good Points
You may not hear these phrases every day in your school system’s central office or schools, but if you did and your staff thought like this…. What difference would they be making in the lives of your students, parents and communities? I am not sure who first authored the below phrases, but these phrases are […]
LEAN Frog is Selected Best Places to Work Huntsville/Madison County
Huntsville, AL – The team of happy, high-performing employees at LEAN Frog Business Solutions, Inc. was honored with the designation of Best Places to Work on Tuesday, May, 5, 2015, at a celebratory luncheon hosted by the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce. For LEAN Frog, this award capped an amazing two years that has included receiving […]
Lean Six Sigma in Public Education – 5 Best Practices for Implementation
1. You Have Customers; They Come First School systems are complex organizations that meet the needs of various stakeholders, both internal and external. These stakeholders are the customers of your school system. The school system’s focus must flow through all of these customer pathways to the final and most important customer – the students. The […]
Applying Lean Six Sigma in Public Education? What Lean Six Sigma is NOT
Sometimes the best way to understand what something is is to understand what it is not. I am often asked “what is Lean Six Sigma?” This is a new approach for most educators and administrators and, quite frankly, there’s a lot to understand. In the past, I have used an illustration of six blind […]
Best Practices in Public Education: More than a Buzzword
You’ve probably seen the Weird Al Yankovich video “Mission Statement” parodying the buzz words that are so commonplace in corporate America (If not click the image below… it’s worth a look). While “Best Practices” may not be the latest vogue phrase in education, it is used frequently. Google “best practices in public education” and you will […]