Lean Made Simple: Transform Your Business & Life One Step At A Time!

Welcome to Lean Made Simple, a podcast about transforming your business — and life — one step at a time. In this episode, Ryan Tierney from Seating Matters discusses the powerful lean principle: "Value vs Non-Value!" Along the way, he and Producer Matt talk about: What a Japanese barber taught him about value Fine-tuning our “waste goggles” Why value is only being added when the product is changing Bob the lean painter Internal vs external customers How 90% of everything businesses do is waste And how to start cutting non-value from our lives Check it out! Links: Video of Donna cutting fabric in Seating Matters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMJ0OPA0G8 Send a voice message/question into the show: https://www.speakpipe.com/LeanMadeSimple Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour

Brad Cairns is the senior principal at Quantum Lean and is dedicated to improving the woodworking industry in North America using lean methods. He also owns My Door Factory and Stolbek Machines. In this episode he shares: Why he changed his company name from “Best Damn Doors” His first exposure to “lean manufacturing” How waste is like gravity Going from making 5 doors per day to 52 within a few weeks of implementing lean And how he developed a multi-million pound product by solving his own problems Check it out! Links: Brad’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@QuantumLean Stolbek Machines: https://stolbek.subscribemenow.com/ My Door Factory: https://mydoorfactory.ca/ Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour

Last week, 200+ Lean Maniacs from 16+ different countries travelled to Limavady, Northern Ireland for the 2-Second Lean Summit. In this episode we catch up with Ryan Tierney to find out how the Seating Matters team pulled off such a successful event (using lean principles) as well as the highlights, learnings and improvements they discovered along the way. Check it out! https://www.leanmadesimple.com/podcast/2-second-lean-summit

Tom Hughes is an entrepreneur and author with 30+ years’ experience of Lean and Senior Leadership. He‘s also the founder of GembaDocs: the best way in the world to document SOP’s. In today's episode we talk about: Why it took him 20-years to actually understand what lean is (And how you can save yourself that long painful journey!) What the heck a “Gemba” is How documenting procedures can radically transform your business And the power of SEEING how your customers actually use your product Check it out! Links: Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour Start a free trial of GembaDocs: https://gembadocs.com/ Check out Tom’s Books: https://improvementstartswithi.com/

Welcome to Lean Made Simple, a podcast about transforming your business —and life —one improvement at a time. In this episode, Ryan Tierney from Seating Matters discusses the powerful lean principle: "Wherever You Ask The Question, That's Where The Answer Should Be!" Along the way, he and Producer Matt talk about: How Center Parcs, McDonald's, and Amazon have used this principle to scale Why reducing the cognitive load of your team turbocharges your business Practical examples from Ryan's personal and professional life Analyzing if your organization is doing this well by using the "sentence-stop-test" What impact this concept has made on Ryan's business, team, and customers The power of providing answers before questions are even asked And some improvements from Ryan’s 7-year-old son to inspire you to get started today Check it out! P.S. Book a Lean Made Simple Tour at: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour

Paul Akers is the founder of FastCap: a multi-million dollar company he and his wife started in their garage 13-years ago. Along the way he’s established himself as an internationally renowned lean thinker, educator, and practitioner as well as being the author of the hugely influential book: 2-Second Lean. In today’s episode we talk about: What 2-Second Lean is and how it can improve your business by 600% Why companies who do lean properly dwarf their competition The best kept secret of Japanese powerhouses like Toyota & Lexus Books he’s read 10+ times The importance of going deep not wide Why Ireland is experiencing a lean-revolution The power of creating and visiting a “Learning Laboratory” Solving the “overfed, disobedient leadership problem” And the life-changing opportunity that happen every 30-days Check it out! Links: Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour Check out Paul’s Books: https://paulakers.net/books/2-second-lean FastCap website: https://www.fastcap.com/

Welcome to Lean Made Simple, a podcast about transforming your business — and life — one improvement at a time. In this episode Ryan Tierney from Seating Matters discusses a powerful lean principle known as: Leave It Better Than You Found It! Along the way he and Producer Matt talk about: The three levels of “Leave It Better Than You Found It” Creating a generous team culture that always thinks of the next person Practical use cases for individual work areas and communal spaces in your business Why his 12-year-old forklift looks brand new Leaving a job better than you found it by becoming a process engineer Implementing a “this is the worst it will ever be” mentality across your team The radical changes this principle had made on Ryan’s business And how you can apply this concept to your professional and personal life by the end of the episode Check it out! P.S. Book a Lean Made Simple Tour at: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour

Lean Made Simple Podcast launching 29th August 2023.