Poka Yoke.   You think, "Isn’t that the video game my children play?"  No, that’s Pokemon, "Game Boy" game with cute animated characters.  The challenge of that game is to train your Pokemon (pocket monsters) to do non-lethal battle against other Pokemon.    Poka-Yoke is the Japanese term for "mistake-proofing."  Like the video game, the challenge is to [...]

“They’re not doing it. They’re no longer using the new process the team created just a few months ago at their Kaizen event. What’s going on?” Michael McCarthy explains . . . When a Lean Sensei or Six Sigma Black Belt leads a team to design an improved process, he or she believes that the [...]