119 Episodes

  1. E38: Confusion about Project Charters and Proposed Solutions

    Published: 6/7/2021
  2. E37: What is the Taguchi Loss Function?

    Published: 5/31/2021
  3. E36: Two main types of kaizen or kaikaku events

    Published: 5/19/2021
  4. E35: What to do if management doesn't support Lean or Six Sigma?

    Published: 5/15/2021
  5. E34: Analyzing my COVID-19 vaccine experience

    Published: 4/26/2021
  6. E33: What is the history of PDCA vs PDSA?

    Published: 4/19/2021
  7. E32: How Lean Events Accomplish More Than Process Improvement

    Published: 4/9/2021
  8. E31: Why a Structured Problem Solving Approach is Important

    Published: 4/5/2021
  9. E30: Using a Prioritization Matrix to Select the Best Projects

    Published: 3/24/2021
  10. E29: How to decide on the right number of people for your lean event?

    Published: 3/22/2021
  11. E28: Don't combine financial data together, separate into these 3 buckets

    Published: 3/17/2021
  12. E27: Calculate cost of nonconformance to get management's attention for Lean

    Published: 3/13/2021
  13. E26: Common Data Types for your Process

    Published: 3/10/2021
  14. E25: Why do we need 30 data samples?

    Published: 3/6/2021
  15. E24: Top 3 things to validate before removing test or inspection steps

    Published: 3/3/2021
  16. E23: What is the Lean Communicators network?

    Published: 2/21/2021
  17. E22: Why calculating Median can be better than a Mean or Average

    Published: 2/20/2021
  18. E21: What is the Hawthorne Effect and does it explain temporary improvements?

    Published: 2/16/2021
  19. E20: Why I like using the Ideal State Mapping approach

    Published: 2/5/2021
  20. E19: Typical Ground Rules for Your Next Lean Kaizen Blitz or Kaikaku Event

    Published: 1/24/2021

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Brion Hurley from Business Performance Improvement shares his takes and thoughts on a variety of topics related to process improvement (specifically Lean and Six Sigma methods), Bursts are rapid improvement activities, so this sounded like a good word to use for these short audio clips. We'll try to keep them under 10 minutes each. Have a question? Use the anchor app to leave us a voice message, and we might pick your question for our next episode!