Guys I’m in love with this content. Our business is really getting into gear with continuous improvement and there’s a lot of momentum already. Two things 1. More podcasts please !! 2. Please talk about the non physical environments too! We’re a remote team (no office) and we sell tour packages (no factory). All the principles definitely apply but it will help us so much to hear examples that are not directly related to the physical working environment. Hope that is something you can squeeze in! Once again thank you! We’re so inspired
Hey Matthew! Thanks so much for the kind words and encouragement! We will deffo be making more podcasts and are really interested in what you guys are doing. How can we find out more?
@@leanmadesimple thanks mate! Would love to hear more about the Streamdecks, the team is pretty excited about the possibility there. In terms of what we're doing, so many things. We're a young company (first employee joined us in August 2022, we're now up to 18) and we started the continuous improvement process in January. Since then we've completed 264 improvements according to our system (although looking at some, I can see that a few of them need a second round of improvements to actually squash the problem.) At the moment though I'm still embedding the core idea of continuous improvement. The team absolutely loved your 'Every person, Every day, Engaged in improving the process' idea and this has helped get people fired up. Finding improvements is easy - we've got a list of over 200 pending - so because of this, I haven't yet pushed learning the different Wastes so much, I've mostly focused on just the overall idea of Waste, which we call Grey Ooze. Grey Ooze is the invisible matter that just bogs you down and gets in the way - the unnecessary emails, the confusion between two colleagues as to who is responsible for what, spending 5 minutes finding info... And what's cool is that the team adopted Grey Ooze as an idea pretty much straight away. It's a really good non-confrontational way of pointing out a problem. The interesting thing, I find, is that in a remote environment, a huge amount of waste is connected to time - adding information, looking up information, editing information. So, in 2 weeks we're going to do a 6 week 'Grey Ooze Annihilation' program specifically focused on mouse clicks. We're going to pick a bunch of processes - maybe 15 or 20 - and track how many clicks each one takes. Then we're going to attack each one and make them as quick and efficient as possible using automations or just simple process simplification. Very excited! Anyway, so far I've found your content deeply inspiring and a couple of our employees went off and found your podcast without me even mentioning it, after watching your factory tour. Overall, that factory tour and the podcasts have been hands down the most valuable content we've found on Lean. No disrespect to some amazing other people out there; our team just connects with what you're doing the most. Forgive the long message!!
Hi there. Producer Matt here. This was totally my fault. I should have stopped the episode as soon as I heard the first ding and sorted the issue there and then. I was afraid of disrupting the flow of conversation but made the wrong call. Big improvement for me going forward. Thank you for calling it out and hope you don't let it stop you from checking out Monday's powerful episode with Brad Cairns. -- Matt
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Guys I’m in love with this content. Our business is really getting into gear with continuous improvement and there’s a lot of momentum already.
Two things
1. More podcasts please !!
2. Please talk about the non physical environments too! We’re a remote team (no office) and we sell tour packages (no factory). All the principles definitely apply but it will help us so much to hear examples that are not directly related to the physical working environment. Hope that is something you can squeeze in!
Once again thank you! We’re so inspired
Hey Matthew! Thanks so much for the kind words and encouragement! We will deffo be making more podcasts and are really interested in what you guys are doing. How can we find out more?
@@leanmadesimple thanks mate! Would love to hear more about the Streamdecks, the team is pretty excited about the possibility there.
In terms of what we're doing, so many things. We're a young company (first employee joined us in August 2022, we're now up to 18) and we started the continuous improvement process in January.
Since then we've completed 264 improvements according to our system (although looking at some, I can see that a few of them need a second round of improvements to actually squash the problem.)
At the moment though I'm still embedding the core idea of continuous improvement.
The team absolutely loved your 'Every person, Every day, Engaged in improving the process' idea and this has helped get people fired up.
Finding improvements is easy - we've got a list of over 200 pending - so because of this, I haven't yet pushed learning the different Wastes so much, I've mostly focused on just the overall idea of Waste, which we call Grey Ooze.
Grey Ooze is the invisible matter that just bogs you down and gets in the way - the unnecessary emails, the confusion between two colleagues as to who is responsible for what, spending 5 minutes finding info...
And what's cool is that the team adopted Grey Ooze as an idea pretty much straight away. It's a really good non-confrontational way of pointing out a problem.
The interesting thing, I find, is that in a remote environment, a huge amount of waste is connected to time - adding information, looking up information, editing information.
So, in 2 weeks we're going to do a 6 week 'Grey Ooze Annihilation' program specifically focused on mouse clicks. We're going to pick a bunch of processes - maybe 15 or 20 - and track how many clicks each one takes. Then we're going to attack each one and make them as quick and efficient as possible using automations or just simple process simplification. Very excited!
Anyway, so far I've found your content deeply inspiring and a couple of our employees went off and found your podcast without me even mentioning it, after watching your factory tour.
Overall, that factory tour and the podcasts have been hands down the most valuable content we've found on Lean. No disrespect to some amazing other people out there; our team just connects with what you're doing the most.
Forgive the long message!!
Wonderful! Lovely podcast, very interesting, informative and emotional. ‘Leanavady’ 🤣
Was very exciting to have so many lean thinkers here in Leanavady ;) Appreciate you listening/watching!
My only regret is that I can only give this one thumbs up. Great job! Can't wait for what's coming.
You're too kind Joshua. Can't wait to share :)
Ryan excellent podcast. However, someone’s phone was dinging so many times during this!
Hi there. Producer Matt here.
This was totally my fault. I should have stopped the episode as soon as I heard the first ding and sorted the issue there and then. I was afraid of disrupting the flow of conversation but made the wrong call.
Big improvement for me going forward. Thank you for calling it out and hope you don't let it stop you from checking out Monday's powerful episode with Brad Cairns.
-- Matt
I think it was all the improvements going through whatsapp