John Bergmann Spaghetti Yes, this image is not spaghetti, it's fettuccini. Let's not get lost in this particular detail. I wanted to write about a very simple tool you can use tomorrow to find wasted motion in your workplace...
John Bergmann One Two Three I like to do things in threes. Turns out there are some great reasons for you to do the same. Let’s get into it. I like threes related to tasks as it is enough to keep me busy while not being so much ...
John Bergmann It depends... Hello, I hope your weekend is exactly what you need it to be. My name is John and I do the things around here which include talking too much and helping people with their problems. I thought it would ...
John Bergmann What is quality anyway? Hello there. You may not have noticed, highly unlikely you did. I am blogging based on the podcasts I did the second half of last year. I covered some great topics and I felt they were useful enough t...
John Bergmann Easy Quality Beginnings Hello again. Today I wanted to go through some easy locations within your place of business to implement a quality solution. A topic like this could easily involve some in-depth talking about root cau...
John Bergmann Leveraging AI for QMS Work Writing a QMS isn't easy. Well, I think it is kind of easy, but I am a certified weirdo. I like technical writing. I like building flowcharts. If you're reading this, you likely share some of these in...
John Bergmann Abandoning Your Why Today I wanted to cover my thoughts on the slow transference of purpose it seems many public companies undergo. Most recently I cannot help but focus on Boeing. While the company is certainly not unsu...
John Bergmann The Lesser Evils You could say I'm on a Deming kick of late. I don't really mind. Nearly every problem I encounter I can walk back to somewhere, at some point, someone isn't using profound knowledge principles. Compan...
John Bergmann Lean, Six Sigma, and the rest, are stupid I felt like seeing how many people I could enrage with this one. So i'll be direct. theses systems are absolutely the way to operate. It isn't the systems, it is the implementation. Deming set forth t...
John Bergmann How I Actualize My Goals I write down my high level goals every day. I have spoken about them before and as I wrote them yesterday morning, I though to elaborate further. I should clarify before I really get into what I'm spe...
John Bergmann Deming's Deadly Diseases Welcome back! Today I wanted to talk about the opposite points to my series on Deming's 14 points. Specifically, the seven deadly diseases he uses as foils to the overall thrust of the 14 points. If y...
John Bergmann What the heck is OSK3? I first came across O.S.K.K.K or as I like to call it, OSKx3 in a book by Greg Lane. The concept is a less well traveled mechanism within the lean manufacturing toolbox. This particular book, which I ...
