Tag: Kaizen

I'm happy to be a participating author on "The Lean Edge" blog/site that's hosted by Michael Ballé author of The Gold Mine and other books. Their most recent question...

My life and work takes me to interesting places. In late 2012, I was able to visit Japan for the first time, visiting the...

I enjoy reading the magazine Inc. for my interests in startups and entrepreneurship. There are often examples and case studies that directly reference Lean...

It's been fun attending the annual Lean Transformation Summit (produced by LEI). Today is Day 2. I took some notes from Day 1 and...

Every once in a while, I have too many browser windows open and it slows my computer down. That's when I dump a bunch...

Out there in the Lean and quality improvement communities, you sometimes hear some silly things. Sometimes, I want to attach the "Lean As...

It has been right about  three years since I was introduced to Dr. Greg Jacobson via a reader of this blog. It was great...

My guest for episode #193 is Mark Jaben, MD, talking about our brains, Lean, and change. Mark has been a guest blogger for me...

When I recently did a Healthcare Kaizen workshop near Detroit, I invited an old friend of mine to attend as a guest. Marisa Smith, an...

Next class: Boston, May 20, 2015 I was thinking yesterday about the "Lean for Knowledge Work" seminars I'm doing with Jim Benson and I was...

Next class: Boston, May 20 2015 I'm happy to be once again partnering with fellow Shingo Award recipient Jim Benson to teach our combined full-day...

Today, Joe Swartz and I are leading a workshop about "Healthcare Kaizen" in Farmington Hills. A "core Kaizen concept," as Joe says, is that leaders who want...