Tag: Mistake-Proofing

Here is my latest article for the LinkedIn "Influencers" series, written for a general audience that might not be as familiar with Lean: How These...

Thanks to my friends in the Michigan Quality System group, the internal Lean group at the University of Michigan Health System. They shared a video...

Every time I am in a hospital or clinic setting, one of the first things I do is get a pump or squirt of...

Following up my earlier post about the "Patriot Way..." During her halftime extravaganza (video), Katy Perry had a silver strap around her wrist, attached to the microphone....

Mark's Note: Today's guest post is by Chris Burnham. I invited him to write this after I saw him share his pre-surgical "poka yoke"...

I didn't know , until yesterday, that Toyota has an official company blog (at least for Toyota UK). Even though I've learned from Toyota people...

Following up my post about not blaming a bartender, here's another look at learning to cast aside our old habit of blaming individuals... this...

Yesterday, Jim Benson and I were facilitating a "Lean for Knowledge Work" class at Geekdom in San Antonio and had a great time with...

Mark's note: Ah, another NFL playoff weekend and time for another football post to follow up my apparent jinxing of the Eagles' head coach...

Thankfully, it was nothing harmful or that dangerous... but I committed a medical mistake on myself last Saturday. I tweaked my lower back last Wednesday...

One of the more trivial things I saw on my recent vacation to Scotland and England was a badly designed toilet on a Virgin...

Mark's Note: I'm away on vacation through November 6... there will be some guest posts in this post during that time. Today's post is...