About the Presenter
Mr. Crabtree has co-authored three books on Lean Six Sigma – a text for the Villanova University Lean Six Sigma program and the LSS (Lean Six Sigma) Primer – published by the Quality Council of Indiana (www.qualitycouncil.com)
All-new Operational Excellence Edge Ezine series I have made it my mission to help organizations improve their performance. I invite you to take advantage of my free weekly ezine program designed specifically for service providers and offices. Every week you'll get tips and practical how-to ideas to leverage “best practices” and get better results. www.operationalexcellenceedge.com
eBook: Five Hidden Wastes Costing Your Organization $100,000 or More Every Year - Discover Strategies to Recapture the Waste - available at: www.operationalexcellenceedge.com
Crabtree has developed more than 30 programs for public and private seminars and educational venues. Some of these can be viewed on the MetaOps web site at: www.MetaOps.com
2003 to 2009 – Crabtree authors the Lean Culture Department series on Lean Six Sigma and operational excellence in APICS Magazine.
Titles to date:
2005/2006/2007/2008/2009 – Crabtree is providing content for the APICS Lean Community, APICS e-news, and International Conferences. Titles published to date:
Mr. Crabtree has co-authored three books on Lean Six Sigma – a text for the Villanova University Lean Six Sigma program and the LSS (Lean Six Sigma) Primer – published by the Quality Council of Indiana (www.qualitycouncil.com)
All-new Operational Excellence Edge Ezine series I have made it my mission to help organizations improve their performance. I invite you to take advantage of my free weekly ezine program designed specifically for service providers and offices. Every week you'll get tips and practical how-to ideas to leverage “best practices” and get better results. www.operationalexcellenceedge.com
eBook: Five Hidden Wastes Costing Your Organization $100,000 or More Every Year - Discover Strategies to Recapture the Waste - available at: www.operationalexcellenceedge.com
Crabtree has developed more than 30 programs for public and private seminars and educational venues. Some of these can be viewed on the MetaOps web site at: www.MetaOps.com
2003 to 2009 – Crabtree authors the Lean Culture Department series on Lean Six Sigma and operational excellence in APICS Magazine.
Titles to date:
- The APICS Practitioner and Lean
- What it Takes to Get Lean
- Barriers to Success (In implementing Lean)
- Value Stream Mapping
- A Key Building Block - Communications
- Your Lean Guiding Coalition – Tips For Success
- Accounting and Management Metrics - and the World Class Enterprise
- Tying Strategic Planning with the Lean & WCM Implementation Vision
- Lean Opportunities in Interesting Places – Sometimes Operational Performance Improvements Start in the Office
- Lean, Six Sigma, or What?
- Incentive Pitfalls in Lean – Careful what you ask for. . . you might get it
- Kaizen – What It Is. . . and Is Not
- Natural Fit- why lean in the warehouse makes all the sense in the world
- Lean Space Savings – don’t overlook the potential
- Developing a risk management plan in your Lean implementation
- Cycle Counting in Lean Environments
- Theory of Constraints and Lean
- Lean in the ERP World – they can play nice together
- Ready for Prime Time - Lean tools boost competitive performance in new product and services
- Key Lean Implementation Activities - Risks, Pitfalls, & How to Avoid Them
- Lean in Service Industries, Sales and Marketing – The Time Has Come
- Process Mapping or Value Stream Mapping – Which to Use?
- Hoshin Kanri and Policy Deployment - Demystified (part 1 of 2)
- Hoshin Kanri and Policy Deployment - Demystified (part 2 of 2)
- Getting Lean Six Sigma Circle Teams to Work – It’s not plug ‘n play.
- Lean Six Sigma Circle Teams - Critical Questions
- Lean Six Sigma Circle Teams at Work – Case Studies
- The Next Frontier – Examining office worker productivity
- Leveraging Lean Six Sigma and RFID Together to Build a Solid ROI
- Reworking the Front Office – Using Lean Six Sigma to improve administrative processes – Part 1
- Improving the order entry process with Lean Six Sigma - Part 2
- Applying Lean Six Sigma in Supply Chain – the Convergence- part 1 of a series
- Applying Lean Six Sigma in Supply Chain – the Convergence- part 2 of a series
- Applying Lean Six Sigma in Supply Chain – the Convergence- part 3 of a series
- Take the Lean Six Sigma Quiz: How does your organization stack up?
- Applying Lean Six Sigma in Supply Chain – the Convergence- part 4 of a series
- Applying Lean Six Sigma in Supply Chain – the Convergence- part 5 of a series
- Lean Six Sigma for Your Health - Eliminating waste and variation in the medical supply chain
- Six Steps to Green – “Leveraging Lean Six Sigma in Supply Chain Management
- Stop the Senseless Waste
- Lessons Learned – from a Credit Union near you
- Lean Six Sigma Leadership – High Performing Teams
- A Brainstorming Blueprint – How to Lead Your Team to Big Results
- Setting SMART Goals for Lean Success
2005/2006/2007/2008/2009 – Crabtree is providing content for the APICS Lean Community, APICS e-news, and International Conferences. Titles published to date:
- Focus on Supply Chain Management: Going Green—Leveraging Lean Six Sigma, Part 1 – APICS E-News 9/2/08
- Focus on Supply Chain Management: Going Green—Leveraging Lean Six Sigma, Part II - APICS E-News 9/16/08
- Lean Vs. Clean – Part two of a two-part series in APICS e-News during April, 2007.
- What’s the Payoff – Part one of a two part series on 5S, what it is, what kinds of results to expect, and how to implement and celebrate 5S success.
- 2-part E-news series – Lean and Automation Together – It’s not an Oxymoron
- October 2006 APICS International Conference – presentation and paper: “Lean Six Sigma Implementation – the Risks and Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them”
- October 2004 APICS International Conference – presentation and paper: “Lean Thinking Organizations – Don’t Throw Away Your Computers Just Yet. . .
- Lean/World Class Manufacturing and the Information Technology Dilemma—The Loss of Corporate Consciousness (September, 2005)
- Reworking the Front Office – Using Lean Six Sigma to improve administrative processes – Part 1
- Improving the order entry process with Lean Six Sigma - Part 2
- Applying Lean Six Sigma in Supply Chain – the Convergence- part 1 of a series
- Applying Lean Six Sigma in Supply Chain – the Convergence- part 2 of a series
- Applying Lean Six Sigma in Supply Chain – the Convergence- part 3 of a series
- Take the Lean Six Sigma Quiz: How does your organization stack up?
- Applying Lean Six Sigma in Supply Chain – the Convergence- part 4 of a series
- Applying Lean Six Sigma in Supply Chain – the Convergence- part 5 of a series
- Lean Six Sigma for Your Health - Eliminating waste and variation in the medical supply chain
- Six Steps to Green – “Leveraging Lean Six Sigma in Supply Chain Management
- Stop the Senseless Waste
- Lessons Learned – from a Credit Union near you
- Lean Six Sigma Leadership – High Performing Teams
- A Brainstorming Blueprint – How to Lead Your Team to Big Results
- Setting SMART Goals for Lean Success
- Feature Article Article: “Lean Manufacturing Procurement Strategies for Smaller Businesses” – APICS, The Performance Advantage Magazine, September 2002.
- White Paper and Presentation, SAE “Lean Thinking Organizations – Don’t Throw Away Your Computers Just Yet. . .” Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Conference & Exhibition (AMTC) June 3-7, 2002 Hartford Civic Center Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- Numerous other articles, white papers, webinars, and re-printings of prior works in company, trade, association, and economic development association publications
