Tag: Guest

‘Lean and Green’ is Free

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Mark's note: What follows is a guest post by Keivan Zokaei about the necessary and unsurprisingly overlap between Lean principles and environmental stewardship. I...

Key Takeaways from the 2013 Northeast Shingo Prize Conference

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Mark's Note: Today's post is by a regular guest contributor, Christina Kach. I was disappointed that I couldn't attend this year's event in Massachusetts,...

Guest Post: How Standardized Does a Kaizen Process Need to Be?

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Mark's Note: Today's post is by a colleague from The Netherlands, Erwin Haas. Erwin is a leader in a Dutch consulting firm, NextChange, a...

Guest Post: Believe in Yourself and Your Business

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Mark's note: Today's guest post is by Gert Linthout, from Belgium. Gert and I were part of the same Lean healthcare study trip to...

Guest Post: Technology, Value, and the Human Touch

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Mark's note: Today's post is by a good friend in the lean healthcare world, Mark Welch (no relation to Jack). Today's post is thought-provoking...

Guest Post: Chopped – Lean Edition

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"And the mystery basket ingredients are..." That single phrase, expressed weekly on "Chopped" from Food Network, gets millions of viewers in America to stop...

Guest Post – Words Matter: Why I Prefer PDSA over PDCA

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Mark's note -- today's guest post is by my  friend Karen Martin, my guest for Podcast #151 where we talked about her latest book The...

Guest Post: The Risk of Ignoring Muri

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Today's guest post is by author  Natalie Sayer, who was my guest for  Podcast #145.   While doing research for another project, I had the...

Guest Post: Showing True Respect by Going to the Gemba

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Today's post is by Brian Collyer, blogger at Today's Lean Manufacturing. Brian interviewed me recently for his podcast. Gemba: the Japanese term meaning "the real...

Guest Post: Respect for People Goes in All Directions

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Today's guest post is by Natalie Sayer, who was my guest for Podcast #145.   Most of the literature I read about "Respect for People"...

Guest Post: Lean for Local Government – Pursuing Service Excellence

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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...

Guest Post: 7 tips for Communicating in a Brain-Friendly Way

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Mark's note:  I'm back from vacation, but I have a few more great guest posts today and tomorrow as I get back into...