Mark Edmondson

Mark Edmondson
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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.

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

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Article LinkBy Mark Edmondson Do you experience lumpy product demand? Do you suffer from "outsourced manufacturing and third-party logistics across a multi-enterprise network"?...

Lean and Outsourcing

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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....

Lean Consumption at the Post Office

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By Mark Edmondson Today I went to the local post office to buy holiday stamps and Priority Mail boxes. (An aside: Priority...

Encounters with Peter Drucker

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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...

First improvement: Your own management system.

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Just as your product value streams require brilliant processes to deliver value, your management team also requires...

Lean or Six Sigma?

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In his article "Putting Six Sigma in Perspective", Michael Hammer uses the mantra:"Use the right tool for the right problem". An excerpt that summarizes...

Two Common HR Practices That Sabotage Lean Initiatives

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Our consulting firm has two HR requirements before we'll work with a client:1. No regular employee will lose their job as a result of...