Tag: Kaizen

How Toyota Defies Gravity In doing some research for an upcoming presentation, I found this FORTUNE article from 1997. I was looking for a reference...

Episode #76 is a discussion with Dr. David Jaques, VP of Surgical Services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO. In this podcast, Dr. Jaques...

Dispatches from the Frontier: Innovation as OutcomeThis story also seems like it couldn't be true, from the Harga-Blog:I once asked a class full...

I saw this van in Boston the other day. I can't find a listing in the Yellow Pages for who they are or what...

Calif. to get dose of auto anguish | Detroit Free Press | Freep.comHere's a recent story about the demise of NUMMI, in which, the...

Our friends at ThedaCare are running an experiment this week. One of their Rapid Improvement Event team members is going to send a few...

By Matt Wrye: Big K vs. Little k has different meanings depending on what you are talking about. In baseball, big K...

Video #7 is a continuation of Episode #3 with Norman Bodek recounting his early trips to Japan and learning about kaizen, just in time,...

A question came in from a blog reader -- simple question with no simple or easy answers: Who are the Lean Thinking CEOs? My first thought...

Note: Welcome LEI visitors... you can check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org, as I hope you'll come back. Here are some other...

By Mark Graban:I'm always fascinated by Starbucks. For one, I'm a regular customer and Starbucks has a reputation for hiring pretty educated people as...

I have always learned a lot from John Shook. As I've blogged about before, I've seen John present about TPS and management (leadership, really)...