Three Principles for Funding

We had more requests than we could fund. Learn how our principles made these difficult decisions much easier.

We had more requests than we could fund. Learn how our principles made these difficult decisions much easier.

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True Voice of the Customer

We scheduled live furniture deliveries to test our improvements and the reaction of our customers was fantastic.

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Gemba in the Big City

We learned so much from going to our customers' work sites in New York City.

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Let it Go

In one of our earliest 5S events, we learned that the team was more important than the work.

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Championing Change in Technology

The story of how we brought Lean into our Global Technology organization.

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Fix it and make a difference

In a factory with thousands of improvement opportunities, helping just one person made it all worthwhile.

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Macon Progress

The day I learned a hard lesson about Leadership Commitment and almost got fired.

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Call 911

By creating three questions, we were able to save critical minutes of preparation for the maintenance department.

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Rally to the Customer

Our vendor wasn’t able to make our special ceiling tiles anymore, so we had to figure out how to produce them in our Pilot Plant.

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350 Business Owners

We decided that we must lead the operations in a way that everyone felt like a business owner. When that happened, performance drastically improved.

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From Russia With Love - The Spirit of Kaizen Lives in All of Us

The team wasn’t sure they could ask for approval from the Director. Until I dragged them to the office to find out.

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Breaking Through the Edge

Our mechanic had passion to correct the problem. When his idea worked, the technician gave him the first hug he ever received for his work.

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