Tag: Lean Sigma

Joining me today for Episode #384 of the podcast is Craig Gygi, co-author of the book Six Sigma for Dummies. He also managing principal...

Hi, it's episode 5 of our "Lean Whiskey" podcast where we mostly talk about Lean and maybe chat just little bit about whiskey. Joining...

I'm happy to be hosting, via KaiNexus, another free webinar. Click the link below to register: How One Community Hospital is Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement November 28 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm ET Presented by Mike McGowan, Director of Process Excellence at Marietta Memorial Hospital This post also includes thoughts from the KaiNexus community about challenges and barriers to improvement and innovation.

One challenge with teaching Lean is that there isn't aways a consistent definition that's used by everybody. Some of the definitions are really bad....

Thanks to GoLeanSixSigma.com for asking me some questions for a discussion that they've posted on their website. On the pet peeves issue, I tried to address, in particular, some of the "Lean Sigma" stuff that I have blogged about here on this site...

My guest for Episode #274 of the podcast is Jay Arthur, author of Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals: Improving Patient Safety, Patient Flow and the Bottom Line, Second Edition. To me, "Lean Sigma" is often a controversial topic... not because anything is wrong with Six Sigma…

I've long been skeptical of so-called "Lean Sigma" or "Lean Six Sigma." And not because I'm against Six Sigma statistical methods, which are valid...

As is often the case, I have too many open browser tabs full of articles that I was going to potentially blog about. This slows...

It's far too common to see somebody with just a little bit of understanding about Lean do things that really shouldn't be described as...

In this post, I'll present a parody video of Keith Olbermann's "worst persons in the sports world" videos. I don't know how much overlap there...

Mark's Note: Today's post is by Erwin van der Koogh, who comes to us from Australia. The thoughts and opinions here are his, although...

Last weekend, at a patient safety conference, I heard a physician talk about "robust process improvement" and this, thankfully, included an endorsement of Lean...