Tag: Layoffs

It's often said that Lean is about "doing more with less." Historically, and practically speaking, it's true. But, it's a phrase that we should be...

Thanks to a Google News Alert email, I get news stories (on a daily basis) about hospital layoffs around the country. Many of the articles...

Like yesterday's "live blog" post about the Autoliv talk, I also wrote this post as Art Byrne talked, but held it for publication today....

I was fortunate to have three interviews published in the past week, where I was talking about Lean Healthcare and Kaizen, so I thought...

While Lean is not primarily a cost-cutting methodology (or, we could say it's not focused ONLY on costs), cost reduction is a common end...

Mark's note: Here's another great vacation guest post by Jeff Hajek: By Jeff Hajek Despite having been fairly main stream for going on three decades now,...

Almost two years ago, I wrote an article for FierceHealthcare.com called "How lean management helped hospitals avoid layoffs." Here in 2012, I see headlines daily...

Ontario's Peterborough Regional Medical Centre is about 18 months into their Lean transformation. They are being featured in a series of four articles in...

In the Lean movement, organizations are often wise to have some variation on a "no layoffs due to Lean" policy, as I've written about...

After last week's piece on "putting the continuous back into continuous improvement," I had another article published this past week. This new article was published...

On a recent Sunday morning, I was watching cable news channels and two different commercials had a word jump out at me, words that...

On Friday, there was yet another Wall Street Journal article about Lean (fixating as they always do on the "Just In Time" component). The...