Rick Bohan

Rick Bohan

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My first job out of college was with a coal company in eastern Kentucky. I was to train…

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  • Culture Change is...Difficult

    What the Media (And Managers) Get Wrong About Culture Change A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reported on…

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  • Why Are Managers So Bad at Motivating for High Performance?

    I got into a discussion recently here on LinkedIn about the effectiveness..

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  • What the heck is a "standard rate" and what's it good for?

    I got into one of those not infrequent "lean discussions" recently that focused on "standards". Now, the first thing…

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  • Lean Is About Adding Value...Not Cost Cutting

    This article was co-authored with Ron Jacques. Smart lean managers don’t ask how lean can help them reduce costs.

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  • Crushed Boxes and Lean

    A client of mine sells popular consumer products through brick-and-mortar and e-commerce channels. We’re deploying…

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  • Low Tech Gets It Done

    I suspect that few of us are regular readers of The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. But the Cleveland…

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  • A Word About "Standardization"​

    I recently found myself in an interesting discussion here on Linked In about "standardization". (Here's the link to the…

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  • The Economics of Lean

    One of my own maxims regarding lean implementations is that, if a company goes into a lean implementation with its…

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  • Process Mapping: Lessons I've Learned

    Over the years, I've helped a number of clients with process mapping exercises. Now, process mapping is one of those…

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  • Is Lean Strategy or Tactic?

    A week or so ago, I saw a LinkedIn Poll on my feed, posted by Daniel Stanton that had a lot of responses and comments…

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