http://theleanleap.com Lean Business Solutions Mon, 07 May 2012 04:24:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://theleanleap.com/2011/08/to-do-or-not-to-do-heres-how-to-answer-the-question/ http://theleanleap.com/2011/08/to-do-or-not-to-do-heres-how-to-answer-the-question/#comments Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:27:34 +0000 Byron http://leanmachineradio.com/?p=627 So the question is, should you invest your time, energy and money making that idea that hit you in the shower this morning come into existence?  Can it really make a difference in your business?  There are two easy approaches to evaluating improvement ideas, the first approach is one that I find works well with [...]]]> http://theleanleap.com/2011/08/to-do-or-not-to-do-heres-how-to-answer-the-question/feed/ 1 http://theleanleap.com/2011/08/putting-the-suggestion-box-to-death/ http://theleanleap.com/2011/08/putting-the-suggestion-box-to-death/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:48:43 +0000 Byron http://leanmachineradio.com/?p=613 Do you or have you ever had an improvement idea suggestion box for your company?  How is it or how did it work out for you?  Did you ever really get good ideas?  Where you ever able to take any of those good ideas and get them done? The sad thing is that most improvement [...]]]> http://theleanleap.com/2011/08/putting-the-suggestion-box-to-death/feed/ 1 http://theleanleap.com/2011/08/do-more-today-5-office-efficiency-tips/ http://theleanleap.com/2011/08/do-more-today-5-office-efficiency-tips/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:15:30 +0000 Byron http://leanmachineradio.com/?p=595 1. Eat the worm – Do the thing you don’t want to do first. When you think about the things you have to do today, what tasks are there that you find yourself already drained just thinking about them – Cold calling potential customers; Addressing an employee issue;  Completing that detailed proposal?  We all have [...]]]> http://theleanleap.com/2011/08/do-more-today-5-office-efficiency-tips/feed/ 3 http://theleanleap.com/2011/07/heres-how-to-fix-it/ http://theleanleap.com/2011/07/heres-how-to-fix-it/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:57:23 +0000 Byron http://leanmachineradio.com/?p=580 Often times in our businesses it is easier for us to identify when our processes are not working than it is to know how to make them work better. It is not uncommon for people to struggle trying to fix their internal processes. If this sounds like you, checkout the Process Analysis Table below. This [...]]]> http://theleanleap.com/2011/07/heres-how-to-fix-it/feed/ 0 http://theleanleap.com/2011/07/using-value-stream-mapping-to-improve-your-business/ http://theleanleap.com/2011/07/using-value-stream-mapping-to-improve-your-business/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:45:30 +0000 Byron http://leanmachineradio.com/?p=554 Last week’s show was part one of a three part series on how to use value stream mapping in your company.  The intent of this series is to provide listeners with enough information to get started using this tool to improve their business processes.  Last week we covered three prerequisites that you need to understand [...]]]> http://theleanleap.com/2011/07/using-value-stream-mapping-to-improve-your-business/feed/ 0 http://theleanleap.com/2011/04/document-tagging-understanding-how-long-it-really-takes/ http://theleanleap.com/2011/04/document-tagging-understanding-how-long-it-really-takes/#comments Mon, 25 Apr 2011 04:06:39 +0000 Byron http://leanmachineradio.com/?p=345 http://theleanleap.com/2011/04/document-tagging-understanding-how-long-it-really-takes/feed/ 1 http://theleanleap.com/2011/03/meeting-effectively-7-good-ideas/ http://theleanleap.com/2011/03/meeting-effectively-7-good-ideas/#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2011 02:18:18 +0000 Byron http://leanmachineradio.com/?p=291 Have you ever attended a meeting that did not have a clearly defined agenda, seemed to drag-on forever, rambled from topic-to-topic, and ended without any apparent result?  All of us have experienced this type of meeting. It is tremendously frustrating and it wastes one of our most valuable resources – our time. Some psychologists believe [...]]]> http://theleanleap.com/2011/03/meeting-effectively-7-good-ideas/feed/ 2 http://theleanleap.com/2011/03/this-weeks-show-mortgage-americas-lean-improvements/ http://theleanleap.com/2011/03/this-weeks-show-mortgage-americas-lean-improvements/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:36:45 +0000 Byron http://leanmachineradio.com/?p=284 On this week’s show we benchmarked the local, Huntsville Alabama company – Mortgage America.  I have been working with Mortgage America since November of 2010 and have great success!  The entire branch participates in improving the overall process with the focused goal of completing any mortgage within a 10 day window.  Hear about their success [...]]]> http://theleanleap.com/2011/03/this-weeks-show-mortgage-americas-lean-improvements/feed/ 0 http://theleanleap.com/2011/03/interrupt-interrupters/ http://theleanleap.com/2011/03/interrupt-interrupters/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:02:33 +0000 Byron http://leanmachineradio.com/?p=276 In business, an average interruption last around 6-9 minutes and requires an additional 4-5 minutes of recovery time.  Add it up, five interruptions – shoots an hour.  If your running out of time each day and not being able to get everything done that you should have, it’s time for you to start interrupting the [...]]]> http://theleanleap.com/2011/03/interrupt-interrupters/feed/ 1 http://theleanleap.com/2011/03/so-is-standardized-work-really-important-2/ http://theleanleap.com/2011/03/so-is-standardized-work-really-important-2/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:32:11 +0000 Byron http://leanmachineradio.com/?p=270 http://theleanleap.com/2011/03/so-is-standardized-work-really-important-2/feed/ 0