Tag: England

The Queen Sets the Takt Time?

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Clients of mine always end up saying something like "Lean really gets into your head... it's hard to turn off" - or at least...

A Lean Story from the UK

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Springs maker saves £50,000 by going lean - Crain's Manchester BusinessHere's a Lean story from the U.K...A Rochdale-based maker of springs for military,...

Gaming the System: E.R. Targets

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The BBC morning news show had a story about what they call "Accident & Emergency" here in the U.K. There's a lot of discussion,...

Let the Process Experts Decide

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Leading article: Infected by political calculationThis isn't a "Lean" story, per se, but it still caught my eye. Hospital-acquired infections are a major problem...

A Lean Guy Reads the Financial Times

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I've often done posts titled "A Lean Guy Reads the WSJ" -- I would create a link to them, but I'm currently suffering a...

Four Lean Hospital Stories from the UK

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By Andrew Castle: Mark's note: Today's guest blogger is a friend of the blog and a consultant who does Lean work for the UK's...

Hello from the UK

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Hello from the Global Lean Healthcare Summit in Warwickshire, England. It is amazing how truly global this movement is, as tonight I met or...

Misguided ‘Office Lean’: How Bad 5S Practices Give Lean a Bad...

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A few weeks back, the British media was having a field day with reports of and complaints about what sounds like a horribly misguided...