Tag: Kaizen

On Friday, I had a great opportunity to teach a class of healthcare professionals at the  Master of Business Operational Excellence (MBOE) program at...

Note: Not sure why my blog plugin thinks the links are bad (crossed out), but they work if you click on them: Back in June,...

Here's a nice little video about the Toyota San Antonio plant.... start it at 1:20 and you hear a guy say: "... the belief system...

Reflecting more on my recent Japan tour (see previous posts) one word came up in my notes: artifacts. One dictionary definition of that term is...

Here is a nice story that's been in my blog's "to write about" inventory since late October: "Participation in Lean events has renewed my...

Here is video #8 in our series of  short, simple Kaizen education videos from KaiNexus, a software startup where I am on the management team (see...

Here's a great clip from Thursday's episode of The Office. One of the new employees shows how he enters customer complaints into the computer...

Yesterday, our tour group had a chance to visit an outstanding factory. They manufacture gas meters and they do everything from casting aluminum, creating...

Yesterday, our Lean Healthcare tour of Japan (with Kaizen Institute) took us to our second hospital, this time in Tokyo. The CEO, Shuhei Iida,...

Our Kaizen Institute guide, Brad Schmidt (pictured above) talked to us on Monday about standardized work. He said, of the practice at Toyota, that...

Yesterday, I was able to visit Toyota City as part of the Kaizen Institute tour I am a part of. Now, we weren't able...

While I'm in Japan this week (read about the trip), I'm going to keep my blogging light - my aim is to share one...