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Dennis Sowards
Dennis Sowards is a Lean consultant & guest writer for industry magazines with over 50 articles for trade magazines, including Contractor, SNIPS, Plumbing & Mechanical, Quality Digest, & Industry Week. His book, The Lean Construction Pocket Guide, has sold over 10,000 copies and is used worldwide.
Articles By This Author
How is Your Company Progressing in its Lean Journey? Use this Lean Check-Up
This is a basic assessment to help you evaluate where your company is in its Lean journey and identify opportunities for improvement.
Better use of Data makes better Managers
One Wall Street CEO claimed, “That today’s businesses are drowning in data.” Managers have more data than ever before and more powerful computers to crunch the data, but they still lack the ability to turn the measures into meaningful actions.
A Muda Walks Update
Senior managers are too busy getting work. Project and shop managers are too busy doing work. A service manager would find it near impossible to regularly visit service jobs. In construction, we seem far too busy to do consistent Muda Walks — maybe one "walk" a month or a quarter might be possible.