Tag: Japan Tour

Come join me and Kaizen Institute in the last week of February as we lead a study trip to Japan. This will be my third trip to Japan and I'm very excited... we still have space in the group if you can join us.

For today's Throwback Thursday, I'd like to look back at some blog posts about the trips I took to Japan in 2012 and 2014 to study Lean healthcare and Kaizen with healthcare practitioners from around the world. I'm again partnering with Kaizen Institute to plan and help lead a trip that will be held in the last week of February, as I wrote about here...

In the past year or two, it seems like I have heard more about people and organizations leading Lean study trips to Japan. This...

My two previous trips to Japan have been incredible experiences, both personally and professionally. I'm planning to go back in December with a tour group I'm helping organize with Kaizen Institute. When people go to Japan, I think they are expecting to see perfect Lean practices. But, no...

I've gone to Japan twice now with Kaizen Institute to study Lean with healthcare professionals from around the world. I first went in 2012,...

My guest for podcast episode #223 is Christian Wolcott, a senior advisor and director of Kaizen Institute North America and their director for Japan...

Hi - I'd let to let you know about or remind you about a few upcoming events that I'll be a part of. I hope...

Last week, I wrote a post (part 1) looking back at our visit to the Toyota Tsutsumi factory that was part of our Japan tour that took...

I've been overdue in writing more posts about our Japan tour that took place two months ago now. See previous posts in this series....

The ideas, principles, and methods that we'd recognize as "Lean" aren't exclusively of Japanese origin. Many of us, myself included, draw inspiration from Toyota,...

This tweet and photo made me chuckle the other day... If it's "your right" or "your left" as you're going up or down the stairs,...

I'll be blogging a lot more about my recent trip to Japan with Kaizen Institute, including the site visits and our lessons learned. I had...