Lean Factory Launch for $1.5B Landmark Museum

How Leaders Transformed a Rocky Startup into a High-Performance Operation Imagine launching a critical project for a $1.5 billion architectural masterpiece, only to find yourself in the middle of operational chaos. That’s exactly what happened at the start of a high-stakes manufacturing launch for a landmark museum. Picture this: a factory was launched to manufacture […]

Self-awareness and Kata for Teams

Exciting day at Syracuse’s Innovation Tech High School delivering one of the New World of Work‘s Top 10 Skills: SELF-AWARENESS. Students learned about different characteristics such as Introversion/Extroversion, Sensing/Intuition, Feeling/Thinking and Judging/Perceiving. With this awareness, students experience the strengths of working in diverse teams comprised of others that have different characteristics. We followed up with introducing […]

Workforce Development Resources Learn and Apply Toyota’s Improvement Coaching Kata

Chemung-Schuyler-Steuben County Workforce New York, a regional Workforce Development Board and Corning Community College Workforce Education representatives attended a 10-hour course introducing Toyota’s Improvement and Coaching Kata. Participants are introduced to a starter Kata by learning the four steps of the Improvement Kata: 1.) Get the Direction or Challenge 2.) Grasp the Current Condition 3.) […]