Tag: England
The Queen Sets the Takt Time?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
A few weeks back, the British media was having a field day with reports of and complaints about what sounds like a horribly misguided...