Tag: visual management
SWOT: Rediscover a Classic
Ever go through your closet or toolbox and find something useful you forgot you had—and wound up being glad you did?
I suggest you rummage...
Whip Out the WIP Board
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Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, I’ve been providing you steps to stay productive and focused in work and in life. If you completed your mind map...
How to Make a Mind Map
Any Harry Potter fans out there? If so, you’re familiar with the idea of a pensieve.
The wizard Albus Dumbledore uses the pensieve—a large, shallow...
Get Wise and Synchronize!
Want to learn how to shave weeks off knowledge work—with valuable learning as an added return on your investment?
The first order of business is...
Putting 5S to Work in the Business Office
If you read this blog regularly, you’re aware that the same lean tools that make manufacturing more efficient can work wonders in the business...
LABP’s Biggest Gift Is Time
How are you coming along with your end-of-year initiatives? Are you realizing noticeable gains, or are you getting bogged down with too much work...
When Finger-Pointing Is a Good Thing
This month’s blog post will be short and sweet. Why? My WIP is at max! (If this concept is new to you, revisit my...
A Better Way to Brainstorm Root Causes
Determining root causes seems to be a lost art. It’s a discipline, and if we aren’t willing to apply disciplined thinking when diagnosing a...
SIPOC with a Twist (Think Policies, not Processes)
In order to do your job, you need to see your job.
As some of you already know, SIPOC is a process improvement tool that...
(VIDEO) Is Work in Process Sinking Your Productivity?
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Knowledge work is invisible. It’s inside your head, or buried in emails and files. That’s the biggest problem you face when you’re trying to...