Mark Edmondson

Mark Edmondson

Mark Edmondson is passionate about achieving rapid, breakthrough results during a company’s lean transformation. With 30 years of front-line experience while working with over 80 companies, Mr. Edmondson developed a philosophy of helping companies create a culture that sustains operational excellence through low cost yet transformative changes.
  • Joined: November 13, 2009
  • Articles: 19

First the V-Pill; Now it’s the V-Chain

Article Link By Mark Edmondson Do you experience lumpy product demand? Do you suffer from “outsourced manufacturing and third-party logistics across a multi-enterprise network”? Has “demand management, transaction processing, and order fulfillment using paper-based systems led to excessive amounts of…

Lean and Outsourcing

By Mark Edmondson Bill Waddell’s post on Evolving Excellence makes a humorous yet tragic point about how lean is too often confused with outsourcing. Prepare to laugh out loud and cry. Real story: This year our team visited an $800…

Encounters with Peter Drucker

From Mark Edmondson: Peter F. Drucker passed away on November 11, eight days before his 96th birthday. Since he was a professor at Claremont Graduate University while I attended neighboring Claremont McKenna College in the late 1970s, I had the…

First improvement: Your own management system.

Just as your product value streams require brilliant processes to deliver value, your management team also requires a brilliant management process to lead effectively. Here are some questions to ask yourself about your management process: Quick, where does your team…

Lean or Six Sigma?

In his article “Putting Six Sigma in Perspective”[1], Michael Hammer uses the mantra:”Use the right tool for the right problem”. An excerpt that summarizes what he means (he uses the term “process redesign”, which in this context is synonymous with…