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Video: "Everybody Everyday: Managing for Daily Improvement"

Lean is not just about deploying lean tools. It is about engaging every person for continuous improvement every day. The pace of this continuous improvement is what defines a genuinely lean company. Hear Jamie Flinchbaugh, Founder and Partner, Lean Learning Center describe principles, tools and systems for managing daily improvement. Principles guide every person through daily continuous improvement no matter what role they play or what time of day. Learn how to build a culture on true behavior-based principles. Also learn how to build a true ideas system, not the suggestion systems that most people deploy, that allow people to engage quickly and easily in continuous improvement of their own work. Finally, learn the critical success factors that make daily improvement work, including the REAL purpose of lean tools such as pull and 5S.



In This Presentation You Will See

  • How 90% of Lean strategies start and end (in minute 10)
  • What you really want (and get) out of 5S (in minute 23)
  • How you measure Lean (in minute 25)
  • The leading metric of truly sustainable Lean change (in minute 27)
  • Using lean to change the work of leaders (in minute 32)
  • How to manage, not just lead (in minute 35)
  • How to integrate Lean into the organization (in minute 41)
  • How to know when problems occur (in minute 44)
  • and more
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About the Speaker

Jamie Flinchbaugh, Founder and Partner, Lean Learning Center

Jamie Flinchbaugh is a founder and partner of the Lean Learning Center in Novi, Michigan, and the co-author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road. He shares his successful and varied experiences of lean transformation as a practitioner and leader through companies such as Chrysler and DTE Energy. He also has a wide range of practical experience in industrial operations, including production, maintenance, material control, product development, and manufacturing engineering. Flinchbaugh is a graduate fellow of the highly regarded Leaders for Manufacturing Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his research thesis was on implementing lean manufacturing through factory design. He also holds a bachelor's in engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Penn. and a master's in engineering from the University of Michigan. In 2006, he was named to Crain Detroit's 40 Under 40 list for his accomplishments.

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