One common 'phenomenon' I observe as quality management expert is a one-liner "we want to Grow" if I meet 100 managers, 92 of them set forth "GROWTH" as their first requirement.
Obviously, as part of my job, it is on me to understand what exactly they mean by growth. Usually, it boils down to
A Lean concept – Productive Agenda-Less Meetings
It would be better to have a brief understanding of KANBAN CARDS before starting with the concept of Lean Coffee.
Kanban Cards: Since the article is about lean coffee, I won’t be plunging in detail. KANBAN was developed by Taiichi Ohno (an industrial engineer) at TOYOTA to improve manufacturing Pro...
#Up-Skill with Janam Sandhu
Proving Value to Customer – Using Lean to create effective and efficient processes.
If your company is on the path of lean transformation and the goal is to create effective and efficient processes that help in retaining your customer base but also attain new customers or you are just starting and want to ge...
World-Class Performance – Is it Achievable?
World-class performance, very common phrase indeed, used often, we think we understand its meaning and nothing is intriguing about it.
But I Disagree, in my opinion, World-class performance is such a common word used on every marketing material, I think it’s often misquoted and not unde...
Sure shot Methodology for Business Success
Using deceptively simple and incredibly powerful lean principles
Service operations comprise more than 70% of the world GDP and growing rapidly. Even within manufacturing companies, it’s common to have only 20% of product prices driven by direct manufacturing labor—the oth...
Cycle Time
A Key Metric for Profitable Business and Happy Customers. A very important concept when we are working on process improvements.
What is the first question you ask as a customer when you order a product or service?
It’s “How long it will take?”
If a business cannot answer this question and deliver on promised t...
Janam Sandhu (Six Sigma and Management Guru) is here to teach you Lean and Six sigma in an easy to understand format and I assure you if you follow my videos and blogs you will be able to understand and implement these techniques with ease.
When I look at the six sigma and lean I feel they are such easy and wonderful techniques which have been developed to help you carry your business in simple and efficient manner but when I look at current trends and the way lean and six sigma training being carried out, I feel their only mission is to complicate things.