About Colin Baird

Colin D. Baird is a senior lean sigma consultant who also has 27 years experience improving workers compensation programs. He is a licensed agent with a large brokerage firm in Southern California. He also provides operational consulting through LSI Consulting LLC.

The CEO’s Bird Is In Their Hand, Why Look In The Bush?

Lean leadership and culture change – Colin handles the ideas in this piece.

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On Brokerage: Failure To Launch

Colin Baird tells us why he walked away from an account worth $100k in commissions, when he had the winning bid. And he explains why he’d do it again.

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Will Ex Mods Go The Way Of The Twinkie?

The twinkie has gone the way of the dough-dough bird: it’s gone by-by. And now that big data has gotten bigger, faster, and better at creating more granular and predictive loss information, will the ex mod go the way of the Twinkie? Coin Baird talks twinkie to get you the X-Mod truth.

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Embracing Doubt

Colin Baird shows how the lean manufacturing systems employed by the likes of Toyota apply to insurance firms and help to increase both profits and market share.

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How Toyota and Japan Are Still Benefitting From Lean Manufacturing

Colin Baird brings home some safety and manufacturing lessons from Japan in this blog describing lean manufacturing in a new way.

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Five Employee Ideas For A Change In Leadership – Part II

In part two of a two part series, Colin shows how Toyota implements a culture of employee – employer growth towards profit with prosperity.

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Five Employee Ideas For A Change In Leadership

Colin Baird offers 5 tips for employer to use to begin the process of improvement and lowering costs. These will help employers eliminate claims – not only in workers comp but also help reduce wage claims and all those other disgruntled employee actions.

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