Tag: Kaizen

This might seem like a random topic, but what the heck, it's a Friday. I arrived in Orlando yesterday for the  Society for Health...

Toyota has produced a series of videos that show how their innovations, technology and otherwise, have benefitted people outside of automobiles. One video that caught...

I'm really thankful for an attendee in a training workshop for sharing this video as an example of traditional "non-Lean"  attitudes  and practices that...

Mark's note: Today's guest post is from Dr. Mark Jaben, an American doctor who worked in New Zealand, leading to this blog post. I...

I got a question via Twitter yesterday from somebody who asked how to help production operators make the case to supervisors that their kaizen...

I'm finally blogging about a Wall Street Journal article from just before Christmas - it's still a generally interesting topic, I think. The article...

Just before the new year, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch featured the Lean efforts at Barnes-Jewish Hospital ("St. Louis hospital among handful using efficiency to...

Here is a new reader question from Steve Palmreuter in Michigan. He raises a topic that I've been thinking about lately, so I'm happy...

Episode #107 is something I've been looking forward to for some time now - an interview with Dan Pink, the author of some  outstanding...

There was a short blurb in the Institute of Industrial Engineers IIE magazine this month that caught my eye. It read: "The vast majority of manufacturers...

For episode #106, we have a returning guest, Jim Baran of the firm Career Kaizen, formerly of "Value Stream Leadership." Jim was previously a...

I blogged about this a few weeks back, but Toyota has posted an outstanding short video about their work at a food bank, applying...