Comments on: What I Learned about Lean Visual Signals from the Waffle House https://sixsigmadsi.com/what-i-learned-about-lean-visual-signals-from-the-waffle-house/ Six Sigma Development Solutions, Inc., providing “Operational Excellence” to Organizations around the Globe. Mon, 29 May 2023 23:38:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Kevin Clay https://sixsigmadsi.com/what-i-learned-about-lean-visual-signals-from-the-waffle-house/#comment-5802 Tue, 31 Jan 2017 22:56:00 +0000 https://sixsigmadsi.com/?p=1831#comment-5802 In reply to Christopher Biggs.

Christopher, Thank you for the compliment. What a great memory to share about your Dad.

]]> By: Christopher Biggs https://sixsigmadsi.com/what-i-learned-about-lean-visual-signals-from-the-waffle-house/#comment-5801 Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:23:27 +0000 https://sixsigmadsi.com/?p=1831#comment-5801 Kevin, excellent observation by you and elegant solution by Waffle House. My dad loved to go there every week (or more frequently if he could get away with it). He noticed that same thing and brought it to my attention years ago. Your posting gets much better visibility!

]]> By: Braden Kelley https://sixsigmadsi.com/what-i-learned-about-lean-visual-signals-from-the-waffle-house/#comment-319 Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:12:10 +0000 https://sixsigmadsi.com/?p=1831#comment-319 I love Waffle House. We don’t have them out here in Seattle.

I like your simplify, innovate, automate.

A quick Google search found several references with the terms in a different order (innovation at the end), but I agree with your ordering as the Pareto principle will get you every time, so why not get the biggest incremental innovations built into your automation instead of changing everything around after the fact.

Keep innovating!

Braden (@innovate)

]]> By: Kevin Clay https://sixsigmadsi.com/what-i-learned-about-lean-visual-signals-from-the-waffle-house/#comment-300 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:20:59 +0000 https://sixsigmadsi.com/?p=1831#comment-300 In reply to Gerhard W. Kessler.

Gerhard, Thank you for the compliment. Yes, you may use the example for your upcoming presentation in Germany.

Regards,
Kevin Clay, MBB

]]> By: Clyde Parker https://sixsigmadsi.com/what-i-learned-about-lean-visual-signals-from-the-waffle-house/#comment-301 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:36:39 +0000 https://sixsigmadsi.com/?p=1831#comment-301 I often use a Waffle House menu in my classes do demonstrate the visual systems utilization. This is done in my lean Six Sigma training program, BOOT CAMP. One of my students brought a menu to me for this purpose. The color photos on the laminated menus allow everyone to order from a visual manner regardless of the ability to read the English language.

]]> By: Gerhard W. Kessler https://sixsigmadsi.com/what-i-learned-about-lean-visual-signals-from-the-waffle-house/#comment-299 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 07:58:19 +0000 https://sixsigmadsi.com/?p=1831#comment-299 Great example for visual signal. Can I use your example for one of my upcoming presentations here in Germany.
I am a lean coordinator for SME and my credo is to start lean just with common sense, rather than ordering a bus load of Mc Kinsey kids
Gerhard

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