LEGO Dimensions Wave 7.5 has been out for a few weeks now and after we finish up our gameplay we always love taking the time to poke around inside the vehicle upgrade menu to check out the usually awesome vehicle skins for each of the packs. Wave 7.5 Vehicle Skins Time for another LEGO Polybag close up! Today we’ve got the LEGO Batman Movie Mini Batmobile! This was a featured promo bag at Toys R Us leading up to the release of the film and while we missed the opportunity to grab one in store we picked it up off No gimmicks to get excited about this week, but Wave 8 preorders are showing up at more vendors. This week, they’ve been added at Toys R Us, Best Buy, and Target. See anywhere we missed them? As far as Year 2 deals, things are a little light. Last week we got our hands on the Goonies Level Pack Sloth minifigure a bit early thanks to a minifigure dealer that somehow got his hands on them a little early. So when the package came in we were super excited to turn on the camera and throw together a
The LEGO City Undercover remaster is coming very soon and TT Games has released a new trailer showing off the newly announced co-op play and some of the fun Chase costume change animations! We also have our official release date for the game, April 4th, 2017! This new trailer shows We have to wait until May 9th for LEGO Dimensions Wave 8 which is a serious bummer, but in the mean time while we wait we can take a look at the recently shared alternate vehicle build images for each of the three upcoming packs. Wave 8 will include a We just got another great LEGO Batman Movie polybag in the mail from a friend and we couldn’t wait to put it together. This is one of the many promotional polybag sets released for the LEGO Batman Movie and was available from the LEGO store with purchases of $35 or The February Lootcrate is finally here and we’ve unboxed it to show off all the cool contents inside. We already had a bit of a heads up about a week ago that spoiled the contents of the crate, but we still let it arrive so we could check it out.
Anyone who has seen any LEGO movie or played and LEGO game will agree that they are often filled with fun little references, easter eggs and hidden jokes. We put together our top five favorite easter eggs found inside of the LEGO Batman Movie Story Pack for LEGO Dimensions. Toys R Us is running Buy One, Get One 50% off on all Lego Dimensions products except Starters and Story Packs. They’re also continuing last week’s deal of 50% off any Fun Pack with the purchase of the Lego Batman Movie Story Pack. Those deals are some of the best Our official LEGO Batman Movie Story Pack Walkthrough is complete for Wave 7.5 of LEGO Dimensions. This fun pack is easily one of the best LEGO Dimensions gaming experiences we’ve had yet! We had so much fun playing through all six levels, finding all the amazing secret areas, easter eggs, Yesterday we shared on our social media pages that if you own an iPhone or iPad, if you opened Siri and said “Hey Computer” you would get a fun surprise…
If you didn’t have a chance to do it or you don’t have an iPhone, we’ve got you covered. I recently read Lead With Respect: A Novel of Lean Practice by Michael Ballé and Freddy Ballé. That book had a few formulas that I thought was good. I then, just for fun, started to look for other formulas in my other books. In this post you find a sample of what I found. Lead With Respect: A Novel of Lean Practice by Michael Ballé and Freddy Ballé JOB = WORK + KAIZEN JOB = WORK (WITH STANDARDS) + KAIZEN LEAN = RESPECT + KAIZEN PERFORMANCE = BEST PEOPLE + BEST PROCESS. JOB SATISFACTION = ENGAGEMENT + INVOVEMENT + RECOGNITION LEARNING = PROGRAMMED KNOWLEDGE + INSIGHT QUESTIONING Toyota Kata : Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results by Mike Rother A “standard” = how a process should operate “Standardized work” = the process is actually operating as the standard specifies Target Condition = Challenge “NO PROBLEM” = A PROBLEM
Short PDCA cycles = more learning Normal daily management = process improvement Taiichi Ohnos Workplace Management: Special 100th Birthday Edition by Taiichi Ohno Taiichi Ohno on Price, Cost & Profit Price – Cost = Profit Profit = Price – Cost Price = Cost + Profit Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production by Taiichi Ohno Present capacity = work + waste Implementing Beyond Budgeting: Unlocking the Performance Potential by Bjarte Bogsnes Bjarte Bogsnes on myths of traditional management: No centralized control = Chaos and anarchy Good performance = Hitting the budget numbers No budget = Cost explosion No individual bonus = No performance More details = More quality Need to know = Enough to know I can explain = I have control Performance = Communication Saturation Daily meeting with few roles = Performance Toyota’s definition of output Total number of employees n= Workers + Staff
This is my Lean/Agile Advent Calendar. I will publish a short post on a Lean/Agile topic every day up until Christmas. I will based each days topic on what is behind the door in the LEGO® City Advent Calendar. So be sure to check back every day! DISCLAIMER: LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group, which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this post and blog in any way.Adobe Data Shows Cyber Monday Largest Online Sales Day in History with $3 Billion Out-of-Stock Rates at All-Time High; Star Wars Toys, Games for Microsoft Xbox and Sony PS4 Emerge as Best-Selling Gift Items; Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago and Los Angeles Saw Highest Online Sales Growth Between Thanksgiving and Sunday SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today released its 2015 online shopping data forA record $2.98 billion (12 percent more than in 2014) will be spent online by the end of the day, marking the largest online salesThanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday will drive a total
of $11 billion in online sales, a 15 percent increase year-over-year (YoY) and 30 percent of all online sales in November ($39.5 billion). Brick-and-click retailers saw the strongest growth in sales YoY with 18 percent reversing the trend of Cyber Monday being an online-onlyThe first 18 days in December are all expected to be $1 Out-of-stock rates on Cyber Monday were at an all-time high, with 13 out of 100 product views showing an out-of-stock message, over two times theProducts with the highest out-of-stock risk included Star Wars figures and video game bundles (PS4 Disney Infinity and Battlefront Bundles), Xbox One Fallout 4 and Halo Bundles, LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar and Fisher-Price Imaginext Supernova Battle Rover. best-selling electronics on Cyber Monday included Samsung 4K TVs, Microsoft Xbox, Apple iPad Mini, Apple iPad Air 2, and Sony PS4. five most popular toys were Shopkins dolls, Barbie Dream House, LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Dimensions and LEGO City.
Consumers saw an average discount of 20.3 percent. Adobe’s report is based on the analysis of aggregated and anonymous data of more than 125 million visits to 4,500 retail websites on Cyber Monday and uses its proven predictive model to forecast the remaining hours ofAdobe measures 80 percent of all online transactions from the top 100 U.S. retailers, more than any other technology company.* Seven dollars and fifty cents out of every 10 dollars spent online with the top 500 U.S. retailers go through Adobe Marketing Cloud. volume of data puts Adobe in the unique position to deliver highly accurate, census-based online sales totals, pricing and product “Cyber Monday has pushed online spending to a new high, and is on track to hit a record $3 billion in sales, in line with our forecast,” said Tamara Gaffney, principal analyst, Adobe Digital Index. was so astronomical that several retailers experienced temporary outages
and slow checkouts, but that didn’t stall consumer spending. Worth, Chicago and Los Angeles were the largest metropolitan areas with the highest online sales growth between Thanksgiving and Sunday.” Online Spend: Shoppers will spend $3 billion by the end of the day, a 12 percent increase YoY. The average order value was $133, slightly lower than Black Friday ($137) and Thanksgiving Day ($162), indicating that shoppers were buying less expensive items. retailers (average sales revenue of $25 million) saw 12 percent growthOnline sales for small retailers (average sales revenue of $100,000) increased by 6 percent YoY. Largest Spend by City: The largest metropolitan areas with the highest online sales growth between Thanksgiving and Sunday were Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago and Los Angeles. These areas also ranked highest for mobile shopping. Dallas-Fort Worth had the largest online sales growth with 43 percent (44 percent of sales coming from mobile
devices), followed by Los Angeles with 26 percent (37 percent of sales driven by mobile), and Chicago with 23 percent (39 percent of sales generated by smartphones or tablets). New York and Philadelphia saw 16 percent growth with 33 and 35 percent attributed to mobile Mobile Share: Smartphones and tablets continued to drive salesMobile accounted for 49 percent of shopping visits (38 percent smartphones, 11 percent tablets), resulting in 28 percent of online sales (17 percent smartphones, 11 percent tablets). $514 million in sales were attributed to mobile, including $313 million from smartphones ($205 million iPhones, $107 million Android) and $201 million from tablets ($170 million iPad, $28 million Android). Discounts: Shoppers saw average discounts of 20.3 percent and turned to smaller discounts promoted on shopper helper and review sites like RetailMeNot and CNET (31.9 percent share of online sales), followed by search ads (26.6 percent share) and direct sales (21.3
Display ads saw the largest growth (50 percent) in its share of online sales. Social Buzz: Cyber Monday had the most positive social sentiment with 56 percent relating to joy or admiration, versus 40 percent for Black Friday. eBay was the most mentioned retailer since Thanksgiving, with Amazon a close second. Target led Walmart while Gap was ahead of H&M. Social media results are based on over 35 million social mentions from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday captured and analyzed from blogs, Google+, Reddit, Twitter, Dailymotion, Flickr, Instagram, Tumblr, Foursquare, YouTube, WordPress and others. Alert: Adobe Data Shows Top Sellers on Black Friday: Samsung TVs, iPad Air 2, Microsoft Xbox, LEGO Star Wars, Shopkins Dolls Digital Index 2015 Online Shopping Prediction (Full Report) Digital Index Holiday Spending Report Interactive Infographic Digital Index 2015 Holiday Shopping Quiz: Are You a Holiday Shopping About Adobe Systems Incorporated