Starve Organizational Entropy, Feed a Consultant
Problem or Opportunity? When companies sent all non-essential workers home, many consultants were sent home as well. I’ve spoken with numerous Lean/Six Sigma consultants who are now [...]
Should we Save Lives OR Save the Economy? The False Choice
Recently, the COVID-19 debate over should we save lives or save the economy has taken center stage—and I don’t like the false choice. I think that we [...]
Will COVID-19 affect KPI Fire and your KPI Fire Account?
We hope you, your family, and work family are staying safe and healthy during this difficult time. You can expect uninterrupted service during the nationwide quarantine. The [...]
Poka Yoke is the power to improve quality by proactively preventing defects and mistakes
Imagine the power of preventing a mistake before it even happens. That’s Poka Yoke. Poka Yoke is any mechanism in a Lean manufacturing process that helps to [...]
How to Start Using Jidoka and Andon Today
Build quality into a process rather than inspecting for quality at the end of the process. Are you wondering what is Jidoka and what is Andon? Every [...]
Use Postman to test KPI Fire Metric APIs
KPI Fire has APIs that can be used to pass data into the Metrics data tab. This blog post will show you how to pass data to [...]
What is Leader Standard Work?
At some point in your Lean Six Sigma journey you’ll come across the phrase: Leader Standard Work. To better comprehend the meaning, let’s first take it apart, [...]
Release Notes February/March 2020 – Product Updates
The following features were updated/ added in March 2020 Improvements to page load time on Metric Bowling view Improvements to saving on Metric Details page. Metric History [...]