Lean Thinking for Business Excellence with Thom Keehan of Enterprise Kaizen

Thom Keehan
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Lean Thinking for Business Excellence with Thom Keehan of Enterprise Kaizen

Real-world business experience shared by Thom Keehan on his nearly 30-year career where he used Lean Thinking in GE and other Fortune 400 companies. We want every episode to leave you equipped with advice and to-do lists for immediate application in your journey to business excellence and lean transformation. We plan to have guests with specific and deep expertise in various aspects of Lean Manufacturing & Lean Office. We will explore their successes and also the learning experiences that come from unsuccessful approaches to help you learn, save time, and make better informed choices. Welcome!

  1. 08/04/2023

    Adopting Change

    You need to gain acceptance to implement change which means "Why?" is your focus. I discuss the need to not only accept the change, but to USE the change.

    4 min

  2. 07/29/2023

    Data Driven Decision Making

    This is episode 3/4 on the four main elements of Continuous Improvement. Now that we have seen the waste with Lean, figured out which Problem Solving Method to use, now we use Data to make our decision on the solution that we can sustain and start to tell the story.

    7 min

  3. 07/21/2023

    How to Problem Solve

    This is the 2nd out of 4 for our short series of Continuous Improvement. We discuss how to approach solving the problems the waste you have identified in the first episode, Lean Thinking.

    6 min

  4. 07/15/2023

    What is Lean?

    This is the first in a four-part series defining the basic four elements of Continuous Improvement. I discuss the definition of Lean, the 8 Wastes, and understanding where to look for them. The other episodes will be on Problem Solving, Data Driven Decision Making, and Adopting Change.

    6 min

  5. 07/06/2023

    VSM Information Flow

    Information flow is just as critical as process flow and the flow of time.

    9 min

  6. 04/13/2023

    What's Your Mantra?

    How do you communicate your "theme"? Do you know what your theme is? Mine have always balanced around three things and I discuss them in this podcast.

    5 min

  7. 04/13/2023

    Kaizen & Capability

    Do your improvements outpace the capability of your people or equipment? This is a quick episode to discuss why to keep them in line with each other.

    5 min

  8. 06/12/2021

    There is No Shame in 5S

    In this episode, we talk about the existence of shame in the implementation of 5S and how to get around it as there is no shame in 5S.

    14 min
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Real-world business experience shared by Thom Keehan on his nearly 30-year career where he used Lean Thinking in GE and other Fortune 400 companies. We want every episode to leave you equipped with advice and to-do lists for immediate application in your journey to business excellence and lean transformation. We plan to have guests with specific and deep expertise in various aspects of Lean Manufacturing & Lean Office. We will explore their successes and also the learning experiences that come from unsuccessful approaches to help you learn, save time, and make better informed choices. Welcome!

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