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Start each workday with digestible nuggets on the benefits of running a lean organization. We cover 5 topics in 5 days in about 5 minutes. 1. Leadership- Discover key concepts for successfully leading your organization during its lean transformation. 2. Culture/Intrapreneurship- Learn how to support your intrapreneurs, those who are driving change within your organization. 3. Lean Topics- Still catching on to lean principles and methodologies? We’ll help you with the basics and advanced topics. 4. Industry 4.0- Learn how smart manufacturing, smart factories, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and more will change the face of business. 5. Interviews- Hear from others that are on their lean journey and learn their secrets to success! Learn more about American Lean at www.americanlean.com Tom Reed can be reached at tom@americanlean.com
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Start each workday with digestible nuggets on the benefits of running a lean organization. We cover 5 topics in 5 days in about 5 minutes. 1. Leadership- Discover key concepts for successfully leading your organization during its lean transformation. 2. Culture/Intrapreneurship- Learn how to support your intrapreneurs, those who are driving change within your organization. 3. Lean Topics- Still catching on to lean principles and methodologies? We’ll help you with the basics and advanced topics. 4. Industry 4.0- Learn how smart manufacturing, smart factories, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and more will change the face of business. 5. Interviews- Hear from others that are on their lean journey and learn their secrets to success! Learn more about American Lean at www.americanlean.com Tom Reed can be reached at tom@americanlean.com
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tom@americanlean.com
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Year End 2020
12/31/2020
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Duration:00:03:06
What to Include in Your Lean Training - Part 4
12/30/2020
Since it is near the end of the year and your company might consider Lean training, I thought I’d give you an early present and cover what to include in your Lean training. This is not an exhaustive list- I’m breaking the topics up over several weeks.
Up to this point, we have covered 12 other Lean topics- Lean History, VA vs. NVA, the 8 wastes, 6S, Current state and future state VSM’s, waste walks, PICK chart, RIE’s, A3’s, setting up an LPO and developing a Master Plan and RIE...
Duration:00:06:48
How to Engage Employees during your Lean Transformation
12/29/2020
Employee engagement is going to make or break you on your Lean transformation. For those that are interested in a successful Lean Transformation, I have a secret for you. Lean is about changing the culture of your organization. Ask yourself, how do I turn my employees into daily problem solvers? One success indicator of employee engagement is having them drive the transformation effort within your company, but how do you get there? Here are five ways to engage employees during your Lean...
Duration:00:05:01
Focus on the Customer in 2021
12/28/2020
What is the purpose of your business? Is it to make money as many people believe? I took finance during my MBA program and finance says your goal is to generate shareholder value. That doesn’t sound like a great rallying cry for employees. “We have to focus on increasing our shareholder value in 2021.” Yeah, no. How about you find better ways to focus on the customer in 2021?
Can you use that to engage and energize employees? I bet so, and if you make improvements in that area, I bet your...
Duration:00:04:51
Merry Christmas
12/25/2020
Merry Christmas to all of our listeners, clients, companies, family and Friends!
Duration:00:00:21
Top Roles for a Successful Digital Transformation
12/24/2020
Organizations have dramatically sped up their digital transformation activities. The pandemic has made companies consider a digital transformation much sooner than before. Companies of all sizes realize they need to transform. To help guide you, here are the top roles for a successful digital transformation.
1. Solution Architect
Just like it sounds, a solution architect develops the overall strategy for the digital transformation. Think of the solution architect as the techie that can...
Duration:00:05:05
Topics to Include in Your Lean Training- Part 3
12/23/2020
Since it’s near the end of the year and your company might consider Lean training, I thought I’d give you an early present and cover topics to include in your Lean training. This is not an exhaustive list- I’m breaking the topics up over several weeks.
If you cover these topics, I know you will have a very solid start in educating employees on Lean topics that will benefit your company immensely! It’s helpful to add workshops for many of these topics to keep people excited and engaged when...
Duration:00:04:33
Five Steps for Supporting your Digital Intraprapreneurs
12/22/2020
Digital transformations are important in today’s world. Even if you are an “old-school” manufacturer- you make stuff- you still have to find customers. It could be there are ways to increase the digital aspects of your products. Regardless, this will require change, and the best way to approach it is to unleash your intrapreneurs. Here are five steps for supporting your digital intrapreneurs.
Step 1- Find a customer
Companies are spending millions on digital transformations. They believe...
Duration:00:04:39
What 2020 Taught Leaders
12/21/2020
Let’s talk about what 2020 taught leaders and the rest of us, but first a story.
The Voyager spacecraft was leaving our solar system in 1990 and NASA had it take one last picture since it was leaving our solar system. Voyager was 3.7 billion miles from the sun. What it captured has become known as the pale blue dot picture.
Its impact is more than a picture. It shows Earth from the perspective of the edge of our solar system and how insignificant Earth looked. You can barely see it in the...
Duration:00:04:12
Inside Secrets of working with a Prime company
12/18/2020
One of the key elements on my American Lean Weekday podcast is the weekly interviews that I conduct with companies on their Lean Journey. These companies are from various industries and are all different sizes. I have interviewed leaders from family-owned businesses to multi-national organizations. This week is a little different, I share the mic with James, a buyer at a Multi-National Fortune 100 company. He shares inside secrets on supplying a Fortune 100 company.
James is unique in that...
Duration:00:12:21
Replay- Did You Know there is an Industry 5.0?
12/17/2020
It seems like we are just learning about Industry 4.0 and the enablers that will impact that digital transformation. Now companies are discussing what Industry 5.0 looks like.
Earlier in the year, I talked about the use of cobots to support Industry 4.0. Industry 5.0 is based on humans and robots working together in close proximity. Given the advances in sensors, cobots no longer need to be kept in a cage away from humans.
Smart sensors deployed on a cobot allow the cobot to work directly...
Duration:00:04:58
What to Include in Your Lean Training- Part 2
12/16/2020
Since it’s near the end of the year and your company might consider Lean training, I thought I’d give you an early present and cover what to include in your Lean training. This is not an exhaustive list- I’m breaking the topics up over several weeks.
If you cover these topics, I know you will have a very solid start in educating employees on Lean topics that will benefit your company immensely! It’s helpful to add workshops for many of these topics to keep people excited and engaged when we...
Duration:00:04:47
Rely on your Core Team to Support Company Culture
12/15/2020
For companies that are developing their Lean transformation, a key element for supporting the transformation is sharing information within the company, and engaging employees. Establishing a Core Team of representatives from different functional areas helps with that information sharing. You should also rely on your core team to support company culture.
There are several steps to establishing this infrastructure properly. Believe me, selecting the right employees to be representatives on...
Duration:00:04:32
Six Leadership Traits for Today
12/14/2020
Leading employees is never easy. It is more complicated given the current restrictions as we all know. Regardless, here are six leadership traits for today you can rate yourself against. If you are looking for future leaders, these are prominent traits to consider.
Trait 1 – Approachable
Since you probably aren’t in a face-to-face situation, your employees must know they can approach you with problems/concerns as they arise. This doesn’t mean you have to be available 24-7 but are there...
Duration:00:04:11
Replay- Upskill Your Industry 4.0 Skills with MSSC
12/11/2020
Industry 4.0 is being accelerated by what is happening during the pandemic. If you or any of your employees would like to learn about the growing need, learn about what MSSC has to offer! Upskill for industry 4.0.
CPT 4.0 is a nationally portable, industry-led program that prepares and certifies individuals for career pathways in advanced manufacturing. This online training program delivers the 21st Century, in-demand skills that today’s employers need for over 6 million frontline...
Duration:00:12:09
Is your Company Adopting Industry 4.0 Quickly Enough?
12/10/2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us, companies can pivot quickly and produce entirely different products in a short period of time. The need for ventilators, n95 face masks, and other personal protective gear has made companies pivot quickly. Are you adopting Industry 4.0 quickly enough?
Even organizations as large as General Motors (GM) have pivoted. They won a $489MM award to build 30,000 ventilators for the US Government to stockpile. They will deliver all 30,000 by the end of August...
Duration:00:04:37
Topics to Include in Your Lean Training- Part 1
12/9/2020
Since it’s near the end of the year and your company might consider Lean training for next year, I thought I’d give you an early present and cover what to include in your Lean training. This is not an exhaustive list and I’m going to break this up over several weeks. I'll cover more topics through the end of the year. So stay tuned!
If you cover these topics, I know you will have a very solid start in educating employees on Lean topics that will benefit your company immensely! It’s helpful...
Duration:00:04:39
Three Positive Ways the Pandemic is Impacting your Company Culture
12/8/2020
I’m sure preparing for 2021 is on the minds of many organizations this time of year. Given the strange year it has been, I’m sure we all want to move on from 2020. To prepare these weekly blogs and podcasts, I do a lot of research. Like many things, the impact of working from home depends upon the company culture you already had in place. Here are three ways the pandemic is impacting your company culture.
A study by Qualtrics shared that 37% of 2100 employees who took part in the study felt...
Duration:00:04:29
Tips to Become a Courageous Leader
12/7/2020
Leading employees is never easy. It is more complicated and messy given the current restrictions as we all know. There are still ways that you can lead with courage. Take a minute to review these and ask yourself are you a courageous leader?
Since we have been recording history, there are many stories of leaders who acted courageously. Did they act courageously because they had to, or because that’s how they learned to lead? Personally, when I think of courageous leaders- George Washington,...
Duration:00:03:49
Learn from the Small Manufacturers Institute
12/4/2020
This week I get to interview David Goodreau the President of the Small Manufacturers Institute and he shares their mission and passion for helping small manufacturers.
David helps design and implement programs that make manufacturers more profitable and give people a career. His 40-year work history is as a machinist, manager, entrepreneur, and a builder/collaborator of non-profits that service industry and communities. The Small Manufacturers Institute (SMI) is his current focus, building...
Duration:00:11:21