Tag: Wine

An Oregon Winery That’s Experimenting After the Calamity of Wildfires

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My wife and I, in normal times, love visiting wineries. The Willamette Valley of Oregon is one of our favorite places to visit and...

The One Word I Kept Hearing at Wineries in Spain and...

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I'll get right to it. The word: "Experiment." Well, I also heard "experiments" and "experimenting," but you get the idea. As I've blogged about before, my wife...

How Champagne Corks Reveal Restaurant Dining Trends: A Simple Data Visualization...

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Last month, my wife and I had a chance for a week's vacation in Europe. As I've blogged about before, we enjoy doing some form of "gemba walk," if you will, at wineries and distilleries. At one restaurant, I was surprised to find a "chart" of sorts in the form of champagne and wine corks...

Does Being Giddy With Knowledge About Wine or Lean Cause Problems?

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I enjoy "gemba visits" (of sorts) to wineries and vacations often focus on this walking, tasting, and learning. I usually read the wine column that's...

1% Improvement Here and There Can Make a Big Difference in...

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I was fortunate to take a nearly two-week vacation recently, a trip that included a week in France. My wife and I had a chance...

My Article on “Testing Lean Changes, Small or Large;” Recent Winery...

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Thanks to Arena Simulation Software for asking me to write this article for their regular customer newsletter: "Testing Lean Changes, Small or Large" The article is...

Gemba Wine: A Lean Geek Visits Wineries, Part 3

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Following up on my previous posts (here and here) on a recent visit to the Northern California Wine Country, I'm going to share a...

Gemba Wine: A Lean Geek Visits Wineries, Part 2

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Growing grapes and making wine is certainly an art... but when you look into it there's a lot of process involved. As I wrote...

Gemba Wine: Variation in Wine Seals and Variation in Customer Needs

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My wife and I just got back from four days in Napa and Sonoma counties doing, ahem, "gemba walks" at a number of wineries,...

Six Sigma Ranch and Winery

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Six Sigma - People I might not be able to blog much the next few days, so I'll pose this fun question. Has anyone heard...