The 2013 #Masters: #Lean Blitz Pin Flag Giveaway TAGS: adam scott | augusta | australia | club | coozie | facebook | free | giveaway | golf | green jacket | guide | lean blitz consulting | marketing | masters | national | pin flag | program | spectator | subscribe | tee | towel | twitter Masters Week here in Augusta has come and gone – a great playoff victory to Adam Scott earns him the green jacket and golf immortality (if such a thing exists). …Continue reading →

The 2013 #Masters: Use of Temporary Labor TAGS: augusta | birth of a new workforce | club | concessions | core | critical | golf | golf shop | labor | lean | lean blitz consulting | masters | mau | national | noncore | randy hatcher | securitas | security | staffing | temporary Masters Week has finally come and gone! All of the golf world descended upon Augusta, Georgia for April 8-14 for the 2013 Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club. Now …Continue reading →

The 2013 #Masters: Results-Based Pin Placements TAGS: augusta | ball | bunker | club | control | fairways | georgia | golf | greens | lean | lean blitz consulting | masters | mastery | moisture | national | operations | pin placements | results | root cause analysis | scores | sports | stimpmeter | sunday | tournament Masters Week is finally here! All of the golf world has descended upon Augusta, Georgia for the next six days for the 2013 Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf …Continue reading →

Golf Lessons and Being Open to Change TAGS: accept | advice | agent | augusta | blitz | change | chipping | club | country | design of experiments | doe | experimentation | expert | free | golf | lean | lessons | listen | masters | national | pro | process | six sigma | standardized | technique | unsolicited | work Just like last year, I was inspired to play golf more frequently after watching The Masters this April. While I haven’t frequently gotten to the course or the range, I …Continue reading →

State of the Lean Blitz Blog: April 2012 TAGS: activities | alignment | apparel | atlanta | audience | augusta | baseball | baseball winter meetings | basketball | bat | ben hill | blitz | blue | braun | braves | championship | club | cnbc.com | columbus | comments | communication | concessions | consultants | continuous | customer | darren rovell | david schoenfield | dayton | e-book | elmore | email | espn.com | experience | facebook | five whys | followers | football | georgia | giveaway | golf | google | greenjackets | group | hot dog | improvement | jackets | jersey | knowledge | lean | locker room | manufacturing | mascot | masters | merchandise | minor league | moneyball | movie | national | ncaa | notre dame | ohio | operations | pin flag | plus | principles | process | questions | respond | ryan | satisfaction | season | service | seth godin | silver hawks | six sigma | sneezers | Soccer | south bend | sports | sportsbiz | steroids | subscribers | subscriptions | sweetspot | t-shirt | tools | tournament | toyota way | twitter | waste | wastes I figured that since the blog is between 5-6 months old now that I provide a “state of the blog” address – what has changed since the blog first kicked …Continue reading →

The Masters: Concession Stands TAGS: 2012 | abundant | augusta | band | beer | blitz | booster | bubba | cargo | cart | cashier | cheap | checkout | chips | club | concessions | consume | continuous flow | domestic | flow | food | football | golf | green | import | inventory | jacket | kanban | lean | masters | national | operations | patrons | people | pre-packaged | prices | process | pull | quantities | resource | speed | sports | supply | sweets | tournament | waste | watson (This is the final post on the observed business operations of the 2012 Masters at Augusta National Golf Club.) I am absolutely infatuated with the speed at which customers are …Continue reading →

The Masters: Merchandise Stockouts TAGS: angc | augusta | batches | blitz | bubba | buckets | club | georgia | golf | lean | made in china | masters | national | operations | polo | process | shirt | six sigma | sports | stockouts | watson I was shopping for a women’s polo shirt in the Golf Shop at Augusta National Golf Club during the Masters on Saturday. The Golf Shop provides a wide array of …Continue reading →

2012 Masters Pin Flags Giveaways! TAGS: 2012 | augusta | blitz | bubba | club | ebook | facebook | flag | free | giveaway | golf | lean | masters | national | operations | pin | process | signup | six sigma | sports | subscribe | twitter | watson Lean Blitz is giving away a couple of 2012 Masters pin flags and a Baseball Winter Meetings hat – find out how to win here!

The Masters: Mowing the Fairways TAGS: 2012 | angc | augusta | blade | blitz | bubba watson | cart | club | communication | cut | fairway | golf | grass | hydraulic | leak | lean | maintenance | masters | mow | mower | national | operations | patron | practice | process | sharpen | six sigma | tennis ball | tractor | training When the patrons begin leaving Augusta National Golf Club during the week of the Masters and when the final groups of golfers finish up their rounds or work at the …Continue reading →

The Masters: Luke Donald’s Scorecard TAGS: 2012 | augusta | blitz | card | club | disqualification | donald | golf | lean | luke | masters | national | score | scorecard | smudge The #1 ranked golfer in the world didn’t have a pleasant first round of the 2012 Masters on the course, and it almost got a whole lot worse off of …Continue reading →

The Masters: Temporary Structures TAGS: 5S | angc | augusta | bathroom | blitz | camera | club | concession | georgia | golf | grandstand | lean | links | masters | national | operations | patrons | phil | process | rory | scoreboard | six sigma | stand | storage | structures | teardown | tiger | tower Welcome to the Lean Blitz blog coverage of The Masters at Augusta National Golf Club! Instead of analyzing the actual golf tournament being played on the links, we’ll instead be …Continue reading →

The 14 Lean Principles from The Toyota Way TAGS: augusta | blitz | club | consensus | continuous | continuous improvement | controls | customers | decisions | develop | employee | engagement | flow | gemba | golf | lean | learning | liker | masters | meier | national | operations | overproduction | partners | philosophy | principles | process | pull | reflection | reliable | six sigma | standardized | suppliers | technology | tools | toyota | understand | visual | way | work When I first started the Lean Blitz blog, I jumped right into the lean wastes and initial discussion of the lean tools. Looking back, what I should have done was …Continue reading →

Happy April Fools Day! TAGS: april | archive | augusta | baseball | blitz | cbs | cell phones | club | cow | finch | fools | gags | george | godin | golf | graban | illustrated | insights | jokes | lean | leanblog.org | magazine | mark | masters | media | national | operations | plimpton | pranks | process | purple | reality | seth | sidd | six sigma | sports | technology | tournament | virtual First of all, no April Fools pranks being pulled here. I did, however, want to share a couple of links and some programming updates. Mark Graban at LeanBlog.org has a …Continue reading →