Lean By Design
Oscar Gonzalez & Lawrence Wong
Lean by Design delves into the dynamic world of biotech, pharma, and life sciences, focusing on operational excellence through effective workflow and process optimization. Join hosts Oscar Gonzalez and Lawrence Wong as they engage with industry leaders who share their insights, innovative strategies, and real-world experiences in transforming complex challenges into streamlined, efficient solutions. Through thought-provoking conversations, you’ll gain practical tips and inspiration to drive continuous improvement and success in your organization. Produced by Sigma Lab Consulting, Lean by Design empowers you to enhance productivity and innovation, one process at a time. Listen on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Lean By Design episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Lean By Design for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Lean By Design episode by adding your comments to the episode page.
0108. Sigma Lab Consulting's First Year: Triumphs, Challenges, and the Art of Consulting.
Lean By Design
11/08/23 • 58 min
Explore a year in the life of Sigma Lab Consulting.
- Share the rollercoaster journey, trials, triumphs, and memorable moments with clients.
- Spotlight on work-life balance and the world of consulting.
- Discuss the art of simplification, process optimization, and creative problem-solving.
- Highlight the importance of building trust, balancing promises, and expertise in process improvement and cost savings.
- Emphasize mental health and success routines in the consulting business.
- Learn from financial choices, risk management, and work-from-home routines.
- Explore the role of trust and communication in teamwork success.
Thank you to our sponsor, Sigma Lab Consulting
For more insights and to assess your organization's excellence, check out our tailored scorecards:
1. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
- Evaluate your R&D and business operations and uncover opportunities for improvement. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
2. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
- Evaluate your portfolio, strategy, and execution to uncover opportunities for improvement. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
3. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
- Evaluate your asset onboarding and management readiness to uncover opportunities for improvement. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
4. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
- Evaluate your maintenance strategy to unlock operational excellence. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
Find all our links here! https://linktr.ee/sigmalabconsulting
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02/27/23 • 48 min
Episode 5 explores the world of automations. Have you found yourself in a position where mundane tasks seem to take too much time to perform? The copy+paste function is alive and well in 2023. In this episode, we hear from Dan Luu, Senior Data Engineering Consultant on why integrating automations in our day to day can help drive organizational success and allow for more time to work on impactful initiatives. Come along as we discuss scenarios and give tips on where listeners can bring automations into their workflows.
"When should you start automating your standard assays?" -By Dan Luu
https://arrayo.medium.com/when-should-you-start-automating-your-standard-assays-948d205ed1a
Thank you to our episode sponsors
Lauren Perna Communications
http://www.laurenperna.com
Sigma Lab Consulting
https://linktr.ee/sigmalabconsulting
If you are interested in sponsoring an episode or being a guest on our show, drop us a note!
[email protected]
For more insights and to assess your organization's excellence, check out our tailored scorecards:
1. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
- Evaluate your R&D and business operations and uncover opportunities for improvement. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
2. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
- Evaluate your portfolio, strategy, and execution to uncover opportunities for improvement. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
3. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
- Evaluate your asset onboarding and management readiness to uncover opportunities for improvement. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
4. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
- Evaluate your maintenance strategy to unlock operational excellence. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
Find all our links here! https://linktr.ee/sigmalabconsulting
Want our thoughts on a specific topic? Looking to sponsor this podcast to continue to generate content?Or maybe you have an idea and want to be on our show. Fill out our ...
02/13/23 • 50 min
In this episode, Oscar Gonzalez gives us a review of Outsourcing Clinical Trials New England 2022 and his fireside chat titled: "Wearables, ePRO, eConsent, Big Data: Are We Prepared for the Digital Transformation?"
Oscar gives us insights into:
1) Ensuring success of digital transformations
2) Implementing new technologies with companies that embody the status quo
3) Where the responsibility lies for delivering efficiencies
Thank you to our episode sponsors
Lauren Perna Communications
http://www.laurenperna.com
Sigma Lab Consulting
https://linktr.ee/sigmalabconsulting
If you are interested in sponsoring an episode or being a guest on our show, drop us a note!
[email protected]
For more insights and to assess your organization's excellence, check out our tailored scorecards:
1. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
- Evaluate your R&D and business operations and uncover opportunities for improvement. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
2. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
- Evaluate your portfolio, strategy, and execution to uncover opportunities for improvement. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
3. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
- Evaluate your asset onboarding and management readiness to uncover opportunities for improvement. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
4. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
- Evaluate your maintenance strategy to unlock operational excellence. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
Find all our links here! https://linktr.ee/sigmalabconsulting
Want our thoughts on a specific topic? Looking to sponsor this podcast to continue to generate content?Or maybe you have an idea and want to be on our show. Fill out our ...
0102. Work doesn't have to be this difficult.
Lean By Design
01/16/23 • 39 min
In this episode, we get up close and personal with Sigma Lab Consulting co-founder and Lean by Design co-host, Lawrence Wong. We dig into early beginnings in New York, his choice of engineering in undergrad, and early thoughts when working through the development of Sigma Lab Consulting.
Thank you to our episode Sponsors
Lauren Perna Communications
https://www.laurenperna.com/
Sigma Lab Consulting
https://linktr.ee/sigmalabconsulting
For more insights and to assess your organization's excellence, check out our tailored scorecards:
1. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
- Evaluate your R&D and business operations and uncover opportunities for improvement. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
2. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
- Evaluate your portfolio, strategy, and execution to uncover opportunities for improvement. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
3. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
- Evaluate your asset onboarding and management readiness to uncover opportunities for improvement. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
4. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
- Evaluate your maintenance strategy to unlock operational excellence. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
Find all our links here! https://linktr.ee/sigmalabconsulting
Want our thoughts on a specific topic? Looking to sponsor this podcast to continue to generate content?Or maybe you have an idea and want to be on our show. Fill out our ...
12/23/22 • 37 min
In our inaugural podcast episode, we get up close and personal with Oscar Gonzalez, co-host of the Lean By Design podcast and CEO of Sigma Lab Consulting. We dig into the early beginnings, early influences, and how Sigma Lab Consulting came to be, with a few lessons learned in between. Oscar provides background to the importance of change in organizations when building efficiencies and highlights key questions to consider when communicating with your clients, team, and yourself to ensure you are solving the RIGHT problem.
This week's sponsors:
-Lauren Perna Communications https://www.laurenperna.com/
-Sigma Lab Consulting https://www.sigmalabconsulting.com
For more insights and to assess your organization's excellence, check out our tailored scorecards:
1. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
- Evaluate your R&D and business operations and uncover opportunities for improvement. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
2. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
- Evaluate your portfolio, strategy, and execution to uncover opportunities for improvement. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
3. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
- Evaluate your asset onboarding and management readiness to uncover opportunities for improvement. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
4. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
- Evaluate your maintenance strategy to unlock operational excellence. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
Find all our links here! https://linktr.ee/sigmalabconsulting
Want our thoughts on a specific topic? Looking to sponsor this podcast to continue to generate content?Or maybe you have an idea and want to be on our show. Fill out our ...
02/14/24 • 44 min
Unpacks insights from ISPE Facilities of the Future Conference
- Focuses on sustainability and digital evolution in pharma
- Next-gen facilities are efficient and eco-friendly
- Shift to interconnected data systems revolutionizes research
- Tools like Benchling streamline data and asset management
- Networking fosters collaboration and innovation
- Personal anecdotes highlight importance of authentic interactions
- Emphasizes connections shaping industry's future
Thank you to our sponsor, Sigma Lab Consulting.
For more insights and to assess your organization's excellence, check out our tailored scorecards:
1. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
- Evaluate your R&D and business operations and uncover opportunities for improvement. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
2. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
- Evaluate your portfolio, strategy, and execution to uncover opportunities for improvement. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
3. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
- Evaluate your asset onboarding and management readiness to uncover opportunities for improvement. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
4. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
- Evaluate your maintenance strategy to unlock operational excellence. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
Find all our links here! https://linktr.ee/sigmalabconsulting
Want our thoughts on a specific topic? Looking to sponsor this podcast to continue to generate content?Or maybe you have an idea and want to be on our show. Fill out our ...
12/20/23 • 51 min
Discover actionable strategies for success, including data-driven decisions and effective communication.
- Learn why operational excellence involves refining resources, not just adding them.
- Unlock the power of performance metrics and turning concerns into quantifiable data.
- Explore making lasting workflow adjustments and the value of reeducation over punishment.
- Celebrate the unsung heroes of process improvement and their impact on corporate goals.
- Foster a culture of innovation and efficiency through open communication and collaboration.
- Join the journey to becoming lean by design with us.
http://tiny.cc/PostIt
Thank you to our sponsor, Sigma Lab Consulting
For more insights and to assess your organization's excellence, check out our tailored scorecards:
1. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
- Evaluate your R&D and business operations and uncover opportunities for improvement. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
2. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
- Evaluate your portfolio, strategy, and execution to uncover opportunities for improvement. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
3. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
- Evaluate your asset onboarding and management readiness to uncover opportunities for improvement. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
4. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
- Evaluate your maintenance strategy to unlock operational excellence. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
Find all our links here! https://linktr.ee/sigmalabconsulting
Want our thoughts on a specific topic? Looking to sponsor this podcast to continue to generate content?Or maybe you have an idea and want to be on our show. Fill out our ...
0107. When "house flipping" meets corporate America. Process improvement for the eventual asset sale.
Lean By Design
03/27/23 • 51 min
What happens when an equity firm wants to add to their portfolio? Only the asset is not quite polished for purchase? In this episode we connect with Jon Holden, Private Equity Management Consultant. Jon walks us through various examples of how private equity firms launch teams into organizations in an effort to improve processes and quality of the assets.
We learn from Jon how to best approach the situation, especially when the employees may feel threatened due to change. He walks us through how to integrates himself into the organizations so that employees understand the benefit, and pull him in as a member of the team.
Connect with Jon to learn more!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-holden-64584890/
Thank you to our episode sponsors!
Lauren Perna Communications
http://www.laurenperna.com
Sigma Lab Consulting
https://linktr.ee/sigmalabconsulting
If you are interested in sponsoring an episode or being a guest on our show, drop us a note!
[email protected]
For more insights and to assess your organization's excellence, check out our tailored scorecards:
1. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
- Evaluate your R&D and business operations and uncover opportunities for improvement. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
2. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
- Evaluate your portfolio, strategy, and execution to uncover opportunities for improvement. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
3. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
- Evaluate your asset onboarding and management readiness to uncover opportunities for improvement. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
4. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
- Evaluate your maintenance strategy to unlock operational excellence. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
Find all our links here! https://linktr.ee/sigmalabconsulting
Want our thoughts on a specific topic? Looking to sponsor this podcast to continue to generate content?Or maybe you have an idea and want to be on our show. Fill out our ...
03/13/23 • 58 min
In this episode, we connect with Ryan Dunlap, Founder & Chief Conflict Officer of Conflictish, a conflict strategy firm dedicated to helping leaders improve how they lead themselves and others through conflict.
Conflict takes many forms, in the workplace, at home, it can be intrapersonal or interpersonal. So how do we navigate conflict to begin with? Ryan takes us through a few conflict scenarios, including a life or death scenario. He provides incredible insights in what drives us and what external and internal factors can lead to workplace conflict.
How do our workplace experiences warp our view of colleagues and collaborators? What causes us to label coworkers as "hard to work with" when the process is at fault? Find answers to this and more in episode 6.
Connect with Ryan across the web and social media.
https://www.conflictish.com/
Youtube Channel
https://www.instagram.com/conflictish/
LinkedIn
TikTok-Conflictish
Thank you to our episode sponsors!
Lauren Perna Communications
http://www.laurenperna.com
Sigma Lab Consulting
https://linktr.ee/sigmalabconsulting
If you are interested in sponsoring an episode or being a guest on our show, drop us a note!
[email protected]
For more insights and to assess your organization's excellence, check out our tailored scorecards:
1. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
- Evaluate your R&D and business operations and uncover opportunities for improvement. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
2. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
- Evaluate your portfolio, strategy, and execution to uncover opportunities for improvement. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
3. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
- Evaluate your asset onboarding and management readiness to uncover opportunities for improvement. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
4. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
- Evaluate your maintenance strategy to unlock operational excellence. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
Find all our links here! https://linktr.ee/sigmalabconsulting
Want our thoughts on a specific topic? Looking to sponsor this podcast to continue to generate content?Or maybe you have an idea and want to be on our show. Fill out our ...
11/22/23 • 40 min
Explore challenges and the fast-paced nature of R&D.
- Discuss the merits and demerits of the waterfall approach.
- Offer tips for maintaining momentum in short task sprints.
- Provide insights on optimizing R&D timelines.
- Highlight the importance of clear timeline structure and adaptability.
- Share practical strategies for managing R&D timelines and vendor onboarding.
- Equip listeners with tools for effective planning and communication in Lean by Design.
http://tiny.cc/sigmavideo
Thank you to our sponsor, Sigma Lab Consulting
For more insights and to assess your organization's excellence, check out our tailored scorecards:
1. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
- Evaluate your R&D and business operations and uncover opportunities for improvement. Integrated Research & Business Operations Scorecard
2. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
- Evaluate your portfolio, strategy, and execution to uncover opportunities for improvement. Data-Driven Portfolio Strategy & Execution Scorecard
3. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
- Evaluate your asset onboarding and management readiness to uncover opportunities for improvement. Asset Onboarding Scorecard
4. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
- Evaluate your maintenance strategy to unlock operational excellence. Maintenance Efficiency Scorecard
Find all our links here! https://linktr.ee/sigmalabconsulting
Want our thoughts on a specific topic? Looking to sponsor this podcast to continue to generate content?Or maybe you have an idea and want to be on our show. Fill out our ...
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FAQ
How many episodes does Lean By Design have?
Lean By Design currently has 22 episodes available.
What topics does Lean By Design cover?
The podcast is about Management, Biotech, Podcast, Podcasts, Science and Business.
What is the most popular episode on Lean By Design?
The episode title '0112. Safeguarding Scientific Progress with a Maintenance Master Plan.' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Lean By Design?
The average episode length on Lean By Design is 41 minutes.
How often are episodes of Lean By Design released?
Episodes of Lean By Design are typically released every 14 days.
When was the first episode of Lean By Design?
The first episode of Lean By Design was released on Dec 23, 2022.
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