by Douglas Dawson, Founder and Managing Director, Leg Up Solutions LLC Stephen Jay Gould, former Harvard University professor and leading evolutionary biologist, said, “I am somehow less concerned with the weight and convolution of Einstein’s brain, than I am in the certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in the cotton fields […]
By Damla Akgül and Doğan Hasan, UnoPro Academy The aim of this study is to research and evaluate the alignment and contribution of experiential Lean and digital transformation workshops in the Digital Model Factory in a virtual reality environment to the Continuous Improvement dimension of the Shingo Model and improvement sub-systems, as taught in the […]
by Bruce Hamilton, Shingo Examiner and member of the Shingo Academy. Collaboration is a prized quality of enterprise excellence more frequently discussed as an elusive ideal than actually practiced.
by The Manufacturing Institute The term burnout was coined in the 1970s by the American psychologist Herbert Freudenberger to describe the consequences of severe stress.
Lead with Sincerity, Serve from the Heart, Take Pride in Your Work by Michael Martyn Recently, the Shingo Institute held its 34th Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. The theme of the conference was “Building a Culture of Growing, Enduring Excellence”
by RC Caldwell
by Gwendolyn Galsworth, Shingo Faculty Fellow The year: 1989. Florida Power & Light had just won the Deming Prize, Japan’s national quality award, and became the first company outside of Japan to do so. Congratulations poured in from all over the world and deservedly so. The words of the company’s CEO, Charles Turner, struck a […]
by Chris Butterworth, Morgan Jones, and Peter Hines “Why Bother?” is deliberately intended to be a thought-provoking title. It also reflects the authors’ experiences with some of the struggles that organizations go through to get real value from an assessment system. One of the most common reactions we see from many people can be summarized […]
by Douglas Dawson, Leg Up Solutions, Shingo Licensed Affiliate About 18 months ago, I was part of a team that worked with an Australian business for a specific engagement. During our meetings…
