Posts Tagged ‘ Process Improvement ’

Do you push a lot of paper in your job?  Do you have to process work orders, patient cases, loan documents, or other types of repeating paper work every day or every week?  Do you want to make this process more efficient?  If you answer yes to all three of these questions then a Lean [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Below is a “reprint” of the old February 8th LEAN Frog blog that inspired this week’s show: I have a confession – a few times a week I run through a local fast food establishment and grab a sausage biscuit for breakfast.  I know, I know, please spare me the lectures I hear them all [...]