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    • Wall Chart - starting to track progress

    Posted on January 10th, 2007 by Karl On Sea

    In yesterday’s post I mentioned at the end that I was going to make a wall chart to track my progress toward my 3,000 bike miles goal.
    Adrian Finch (an aspiring 5,000 mile hero) asked if I use My Cycling Log, bikejournal or CycleSmart to keep track of my progress, and my reply was that I […]

    Filed under: Cycling, Triathlon, Fitness, Lean | 5 Comments »

    Post-Its and Visual Management

    Posted on December 29th, 2006 by Karl On Sea

    Right now I’m working with a firm to help improve their production output. They’re suffering from the usual problem - too much work in progress (WIP), caused by a production manager who wanted to ‘get ahead’, by manically over-producing at the start of the process flow.
    The line manager I’m working with understands this, and has […]

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    Post-Its. More than ‘While You Were Out’

    Posted on December 11th, 2006 by Karl On Sea

    DailyKaizen » Hoshin 102
    I think I should buy shares in 3M - the people who invented Post It Notes.
    I seem to use them all the time when running workshops - they’re a great tool to use for rearranging complex information, to try and make sense of a problem. One of the main techniques I use […]

    Filed under: Business, Manufacturing, Lean | 1 Comment »

    Quality Work & Service

    Posted on December 4th, 2006 by Karl On Sea

    Mark Graban at Lean Blog’s just finished reading Managing the Professional Service Firm by David Maister, and raises an interesting point:
    “Quality Work Does Not Mean Quality Service”
    ‘Work’ is the stuff you do, while ‘Service’ refers to the overall customer experience - what’ll keep them coming back for more. You can do a great job, but […]

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    Meetings - The Practical Alternative to Work?

    Posted on December 2nd, 2006 by Karl On Sea

    I had three on-site meetings with clients yesterday, each of which had a completely different flavour.
    The first was one that I wasn’t in control of - I’m working with Jan Grieveson on this job, and this was his ‘cheerleader’ session - drum-banging and rabble-rousing from the Hard Knocks School of Business. He had a clear […]

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    • Countdown to Hell

      It's your choice, and what you do today will make a difference. Global CO2 concentrations must peak at 400ppm by 2015, and then emissions must decline by 85% by 2050 if we are to avoid catastrophic, runaway global warming.

      Think global warming would make for a more pleasant environment? Think again - water shortages across central Europe and the US West coast, the Sahara engulfing up as far north as Lyons, the 1930's 'Dustbowl' looked back on with fond memories of better times, and nuclear armed India & Pakistan faced with droughts worth going to war for.

      And that's before we talk about the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and the sea swallowing where most of us comfortably live.

      Like I said, it's your choice:



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