Gemba Academy Podcast: Lean Manufacturing | Lean Office | Six Sigma | Toyota Kata | Productivity | Leadership

This week's guest is Audie Penn. Ron and Audie talked about the ways that lean can be used to help teams solve unique problems. A MP3 audio version of this episode is available for download here. In this episode you'll learn:  The quote that inspires Audie (2:40) Audie's background (3:13) The power of lean (5:29) A defect Audie was seeing and how he approached it (7:33) Seeking out root causes (9:49) The tools Audie uses (11:18) The negative impact of expertise (16:03) Implementing countermeasures (22:08) What's missing (29:17) Podcast Resources Right Click to Download this Podcast as an MP3 Download a Free Audio Book at Audible.com Audie on LinkedIn Audie's Website Faro Partners The Fifth Discipline Subscribe & Never Miss New Episodes! Click to Subscribe in iTunes If you enjoyed this podcast please be sure to subscribe on iTunes. Once you're a subscriber all new episodes will be downloaded to your iTunes account and smartphone. The easiest way for iPhone users to listen to