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I was quoted in two articles that appeared in "Today's Hospitalist": "Discharging Mr. Wood: Time to get serious about waste" and "Standardized work: Improving quality by reducing...

Last Wednesday and Thursday, I collaborated with Joe Swartz and a countless number of his colleagues to host 24 visitors from different health systems (and...

To the left is a young baby me. I don't think I was thinking about Dr. Deming as a baby, but thankfully my parents...

In manufacturing, the term Lean has far too often been synonymous with layoffs. Doing so is more L.A.M.E. than Lean. People get anxious and throw around...

Forgive me for being a bit of an Industrial Engineering geek here in this post. After all, my bachelor's degree is in Industrial Engineering,...

Reminder: I'm doing a webinar today with Dr. Greg Jacobson, CEO of KaiNexus, titled "How To Spread Continuous Improvement" and I hope you'll join...

You might know my friend Karl Wadensten, the president of VIBCO, a small manufacturer in Rhode Island. I've interviewed him for episode #84 of...

I have been going through some old papers recently and I found two sheets of paper with hand-written thoughts or "truisms" that I had scribbled...

I hope you might have access to this interesting article from the Wall St. Journal: "Toyota Veteran Rises to Corporate Office From Factory Floor."...

Every time I am in a hospital or clinic setting, one of the first things I do is get a pump or squirt of...

You Still Have Time to Register Update -- you can also learn more and register for our April 2016 event via www.KaizenLive.com. Joe Swartz and I...

tl;dr: The blog examines the pitfalls of poorly executed Lean methodologies, using an analogy of a cheeseburger to discuss unhealthy implementations. It argues for...