Tag: Kanban
Invest in Robots or in People? Amazon Makes the Lean Decision
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...
St. Louis Paper Features Lean at Barnes-Jewish Hospital
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...
The Toyota Texas Plant Tour – Concepts From the Visitor Center
I'll start the week with another post about my tour of the TMMTX (Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas) plant in San Antonio. Today I'll write...
Lean Healthcare Featured in Sunday’s New York Times Business Page
Today's edition of The New York Times has an outstanding article about Lean Healthcare and what Seattle Children's Hospital calls C.P.I. or Continuous Performance...
How a Simple Office Kanban System Works at the Lean Enterprise...
One of the things I like about working at the Lean Enterprise Institute might seem like a silly thing -- it's that I get...
10 Things I Wish Lean Practitioners Wouldn’t Say in 2010
In the blog tradition of "Top 10" lists (and "do not say" lists, like this one from Time or this workplace list from CNN),...
5S and Kanban at BIDMC = Happiness
Running a hospital: MICUs go Lean: Result = HappinessIn lieu of a blog post today, I'm leaving you with a recent post on Paul...
USA Today Features Lean in Hospitals
Hospital CEOs manage staff time, inventory to cut costs - USATODAY.com
It's nice to see a major publication covering Lean and, especially, Lean in healthcare....
NY Times Says Toyota To Get Leaner, Um, More Lean? Super...
Toyota Is Tightening Its Belt - NYTimes.comThe words don't appear directly in the article, but the RSS blurb for this article (repeated in many...
The Benefits of Using Lean Approaches for Software Development
If Lean can work in healthcare, why not software? Today's guest post is by Eric Landes, who currently works with Lean/Agile techniques in ...
Lean MD Office on NM TV
Local doctors cut stressBelow is a video from an Albuquerque TV news station, visiting a doctor's office that was implementing Lean. I wish I...
Lean at a Wisconsin Children’s Hospital
Children's Hospital is going lean - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:Wisconsin is a state that seems to have a disproportionate amount of Lean activity...
