Tag: Government

Following up on my post from September on the Washington gubernatorial race ("Lean Management" Debated in the Washington Gubernatorial Race), the winner of the...

It's awesome that Eric Ries puts the video content from The Lean Startup Conference online each year. He's just uploaded some videos to his...

As are many people across the United States and around the world, I'm saddened by the violence that claimed so many lives Friday in...

I arrived in San Francisco yesterday for the Lean Startup conference, where I gave my 5-minute Ignite format talk on the parallels between Lean...

The list of stuff I've read and wanted to blog about has grown... that inventory becomes a post like this.  Here are links to...

Mark's note: Thanks to all of the wonderful guest bloggers  who contributed to this space over the past two weeks. Today's post is by...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, with the help of Michael George, tried injecting talk of so-called "Lean Six Sigma" into the 2012 presidential race,...

This isn't a story about my frustration with a State of Texas office... it's mainly a story about a failed "kaizen"-style improvement attempt that...

My mom is a retired public school elementary teacher, so I've heard plenty of stories about bad management decisions within a school system and...

The Supreme Court has mainly upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including the individual mandate and other controversial provisions. The court did...

Here are links to some more articles I've read recently that might be of interest related to Lean, systems, and improvement. The "good news"...

While the hurdles to systemic Lean healthcare transformation are high (see the payment system challenges discussed in John Toussaint's new book), I am generally...