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• Matt Horvat wrote a new blog post: Establish the Process   1 day, 23 hours ago · View

  I walk into a contractor’s office and am pretty rapidly exhausted with trying to figure out what is going on. What you see are some safety related posters, a copy machine, stack of office supplies, drawings, dirt, desks and doors. Overstuffed filing cabinets and stacks of paper shuffled in the corners. You’ll see dirt on the [...]

• Hal Macomber wrote a new blog post: LPC & TRG NOW COLLABORATING   3 weeks, 1 day ago · View

  Lean Project Consulting (LPC), the industry’s pioneering lean transformation consulting and coaching firm, and The ReAlignment Group, Ltd. (TRG), a unique provider of facilitation services for lean partnering, team building and Integrated Project Delivery, have announced the signing of a formal Memorandum of Understanding to provide collaborative, coordinated services to the design and construction industry. [...]

• Matt Horvat wrote a new blog post: Beat the Plateau of Improving Safety   2 months, 1 week ago · View

  Is Quick and Easy Kaizen a way to establish a habit of identifying hazards? It seems like every time I walk on a jobsite I see a worker without proper PPE, or some obstacle on the floor, or sharp metal objects stacked up. I know other people notice these things, yet nothing is done. There [...]

• Matt Horvat wrote a new blog post: Start at Check   2 months, 1 week ago · View

  A webcrawler just pointed me to an image of the learning cycle, PDCA (plan do check adjust). (http://bit.ly/d8KoYE). There is an astrix with “Start Here” next to the Check. Funny, I thought. Usually I plan first. But it makes sense to first check to see if there is a need to take action. Usually I have [...]

• rebecca-bettler wrote a new blog post: Building the Pyramids   3 months, 3 weeks ago · View

  I recently had the opportunity to spend some time in Egypt. On our way to the Great Pyramid, our group of twelve had a lively conversation about the builders of the pyramids. There were a couple of theories in our group about this. Some of my fellow travelers believe slaves built the pyramids, as I [...]

• rebecca-bettler wrote a new blog post: To Pay or Not to Pay?   1 year, 1 month ago · View

  One of the keys of a good Quick ‘n Easy Kaizen ( QnEK) program is that we want QnEK to become a habit within the organization. We want our employees to continuously be thinking and acting on ways to make things better. This is a critical step that we can take to reduce the waste [...]

• aaron-preston wrote a new blog post: Deep Thoughts   1 year, 4 months ago · View

  In my work with design teams implementing Responsibility-Based Project Delivery(TM) I see teams beginning the lean journey struggling to think deeply about their work and be explicit in the commitments they are making. I did not foresee this as a possible issue when I began coaching design teams. My initial assessment was that teams would [...]

• matthew-horvat wrote a new blog post: Working with a Coach   1 year, 4 months ago · View

  Have you ever got ready for your day without looking in the mirror? I work with a lot of people that get started doing things that are new to them. It would be like styling your hair differently. Would you do this without looking in the mirror? When we talk about changing something in business [...]

• matthew-horvat wrote a new blog post: Is Lean Construction a Tool?   1 year, 5 months ago · View

  We get stuck using tools incorrectly all the time. In fact, it is claimed to be one of the biggest mistakes of organizations adopting lean. A focus on the tools of lean causes inaction and misunderstanding. There are a lot of tools that contradict each other. Confusion occurs – how do we deal with this? [...]