This document discusses Lean principles and continuous improvement. It promotes learning to see waste and continuously improving everything. Lean thinking focuses on reducing non-value added waste from processes. Small, continuous improvements can have big impacts. The key is for every person to look for ways to improve everything they do every day. Continuous improvement should be ingrained in an organization's culture through routines like morning improvement walks.

1. MY GOAL?

2. FOR YOU TO SEE
WASTE
... LIKE YOU HAVE
NEVER SEEN IT
BEFORE

3. WHAT IS LEAN?
Learning to see waste
Continuously Improving Everything

4. Our Story
2000 BUSINESS OF THE YEAR

5. 11 YEARS OF LEAN THINKING

6. LEARNING FROM THE
JAPANESE

7. SMART PEOPLE CAN’T
BELIEVE ...
...it can be this simple

8. THE MAGIC OF 3 S-ING:
Sweeping Sorting
Standardizing

9. 8 Deadly Wastes

10. LEAN BURRITO

11. HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE YOU
TO CHANGE YOUR TIRE?

12. HOW LONG FOR AN INDY
PIT CREW...EXCELLENCE IS
MAGICAL

13. CONTINUOUS IMPROVMENT

14. 2 SECOND IMPROVEMENT

15. IT’S AS SIMPLE AS.....
Every person, everything, everyday

16. THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER
DESK
who pays for this?

17. LEAN DESK

18. PROFESSIONAL STUDY ON
WHY STUDENT LEARN
Show up to class
and sit in the front row

19. WHAT ARE THE EXCUSES
that won’t work for us
we are not manufactures
we don’t make anything

20. IT’S AS SIMPLE AS.....
Every person, everything, everyday

21. READ...

22. WATCH THE VIDEOS
www.fastcap.com
Everything is Free

23. THE RIGHT REASON
You care about people
And you love Excellence

24. THE KEYS TO LEAN
LEADERSHIP
STOP TALKING
ASK QUESTION
LET PEOPLE EXPERIMENT
PRAISE ENDLESSLY

25. Taiichi Ohno
All we are doing is looking at the time
line, from the moment the customer gives
us the order to point when we collect the
cash, and we are reducing the time line by
reducing the non value added waste.

26. LEAN THINKERS
CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE

27. WHAT IS YOUR KATA
Toyota's remarkable success with
continuous improvement is the kata –
or routines – that are ingrained into the
culture.

28. THE MORNING
IMPROVEMENT WALK

29. SMALL CONTINUOUS
IMPROVEMENTS

30. HOW DO YOU START?
Take a Tour and learn to
see!

31. PAUL'S CONTACT INFO
Paul Akers
FastCap
Bellingham WA
360 941 3748
paul@fastcap.com
www.fastcap.com

32. THE AMERICAN INNOVATOR
The show can be be watched and
listened to online at
www.theamericaninnovator.com
Download
the pod casts
on itune

33. BUILDING A CULTURE OF
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

34. THE BEST PLACE TO START
LET’S GO TO THE

35. THE WRONG REASONS TO
DO LEAN
I want to save money
i want to be competitive
it’s a good marketing approach
compliance