Tag: Kaizen

Interview with Paul Akers, CEO of FastCap, on the LeanAmerica.org Initiative

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Listen: This episode is a conversation with Paul Akers, founder and president of FastCap LLC, based in Bellingham, WA. FastCap is an international product development...

“All Men (or People) Are Created Equal” – In Your Workplace?

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As we celebrate Independence Day in the United States (I prefer not to refer to it as the less meaningful "4th of July"), it's...

Funny Kaizen Cartoon from Lean Pathways

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I feel like a lazy blogger posting cartoons and links to videos, but this latest "Lean Laughs" cartoon from Pascal Dennis and the team...

Real-Time Office Kaizen With the Help of Twitter; Practicing What I...

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As I've been working on my upcoming second book, Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Improvements, I've had "kaizen" (or continuous improvement) on the...

Masaaki Imai Kaizen Video; Share Kaizen Stories for My Upcoming Book

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Here is a great video by Masaaki Imai, author of the classic books Kaizen: The Key To Japan's Competitive Success and Gemba Kaizen: A...

Introducing Dr. Les Muda: The World’s First Lean Healthcare Comedian

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In today's post, I'm happy to introduce Dr. Les Muda, the World's First Lean Healthcare Comedian. First and perhaps the last. Dr. Muda sent...

What’s the One Common Feature on These Suggestion Boxes?

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Today's post is a short one, a bit of a visual puzzler and a reader participation post (leave a comment!). If you were in the...

An Unexpected Lean Thinker and her “Kaizen Lifestyle”

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I stumbled across a surprising use of the word "kaizen" the other day from a surprising source - TV entertainment reporter and actress Maria...

Guest Post: What is “Yokoten?”

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Mark's Note: Today's post is from Al Norval, with the firm Lean Pathways, Inc. In the Lean world, we hear all kinds of Japanese...

Management Journal Article about Children’s Medical Center Dallas

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I am happy to share, with permission, a new journal article that I co-authored with Jim Adams ("The Synthesizer"), the senior director of laboratory...

More Trust, Less Fear

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As I'm going through revisions of my book, Lean Hospitals, a theme jumps out at me in Chapter 2.... it's all about trust. The first...

Lean, Value & Waste: Better to be Creative than to Cheat...

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I saw this article last week in the USA Today while traveling, with the online headline "Products nipped, tucked to save." That headline makes...
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