MIT class help

This summer the new LFM class (graduating in 2007, I believe) is taking a course call "Lean and Six Sigma." These two topics are personal favorites of mine so when the professor sent an email to graduates asking for volunteers to help I sent him my name. Volunteering means participating in about 3-4 hour-long phone conversations concerning a process improvement activity. Three students were assigned to me. They sent me a great email showing the questions they needed to address in our first phone conversation. When we talked today they added that on a personal level they were also quite curious about my quest to buy a business. We had a fun talk about the kanban implementation I've discussed previously in this blog. They're also going to talk to some of the other folks at the factory to see how they're dealing with the changes. I enjoyed our talk.

I should mention that we got off to a nice start when one of the students mentioned that he already owns one of our candle lanterns!