Tag: Guest
‘Lean and Green’ is Free
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
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?
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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...