On this segment of The Leaning Edge features Alen Ganic. Alen studied supply chain management and also received CPIM Supply Chain Management certification from APICS (The Association for Operations Management) and Lean certification from Grand Rapids Community College.
The Leaning Edge welcomes Theresa Coleman-Kaiser to talk about became Senior Associate Vice President for Administration in 2017 after serving in a variety of administrative and operations positions at Michigan Tech since 1999.
Mark Graban joins Debra Levantrosser to talk about on this segment of the Leaning Edge. Mark went on a recent trip to Japan and talks about the use of LEAN practices in Japan, and learning from that he can help Michigan in the process.
On this segment of the Leaning Edge is guest Bob Sturza and he covers the importance of visual management. Bob is a performance improvement professional at Covenant Healthcare in Saginaw, MI. He has over 25 years’ experience in plant, field service operations, government and healthcare (inpatient and outpatient). He is proficient in quality engineering techniques including internal and external auditing, Six Sigma, LEAN and supplier development.
Debra Levantrosser talks with Todd Sperl managing partner of Lean Fox Solutions. They discuss the journey of a forward thinking, small community hospital that deployed a uniquely different training that incorporated lean management with lean thinking utilizing a non-traditional classroom setting.
Hostess Debra Levantrosser interviews Bassel Salka about lean practices in education. Bassel is a Junior studying Industrial and Operations Engineering and Pre-Med at the University of Michigan.
He is also the co-founder of MLC Consulting and is an active member of different organizations on campus including president of the Arab Student Association and undergraduate researcher at the Center of Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety. Bassel plans to work as an intern this summer at Amazon as an Air Team Project Manager.
On this segment of A Leaning Edge hostess Debra Levantrosser interviews Kathy Malone about environmental heath and safety of lean practices.
In this segment of The Leaning Edge Debra Levantrosser talks with Jamie Flinchbaugh, owner of JFlinch about Diagnostics and Lean Practices.
Debra Levantrosser talks with Karl Eberle, co-author of Top 100, bestselling Amazon.com book “Profit through Change”. The book delivers the message that “Change is Good!” for business, with proven wins and effective results.
Karl Eberle, a well-respected senior operations and industrial leader, offers extensive and credible expertise. He has consistently developed teams and provided key oversight to enable organizations to achieve superior results on projects, restructuring, competitiveness, and growth initiatives. With hands on working experience in key functional disciplines across several industries and a strong technical background, Karl brings the “real world” experience and leadership know-how to be effective in a variety of situations, including:
Laura Kempf's latest project gave her insight to the most important tool lean practitioners have, which is “bringing people together”. Lean events do that very well and in a company where people have come together from various backgrounds, experiences, acquired companies and so forth, just agreeing on how to work together is a huge improvement in itself.
The Leaning Edge Consortium recently launched at program at the WH level focused around improving the way we work together across Watson Health. I remember when lean first came to our company and executives would ponder why it took a lean event to get employees to think of the improvement. The truth of it is that the lean event allows the team to take a step back, analyze the issue and make the improvement. Our greatest tool as facilitators is bridging the gap in allowing employees to work together.
