Tag: Respect for People

I saw this video last night on Paul Levy's blog and it's important enough that I want to share it here with a few...

Here's a great post from Pascal Dennis on Lean and PDCA (or PDSA): PDCA - the Pounding Heart Muscle of Life Everybody should read Pascal's post......

In a new video released by the Lean Enterprise Institute, CEO John Shook talks about a "Lean transformation" model. He starts by explaining how...

I had a chance to go back to the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas (TMMTX) plant in south San Antonio last week with a group...

Today and tomorrow, I'm attending the Lean Startup conference in San Francisco (the event produced by Eric Ries, the author of The Lean Startup)....

Mark's post: I'm still away on vacation, but happy to have some guest bloggers, including Chad Walters. Unlike his past posts, today's not about...

I had a chance again today to attend ThedaCare's weekly "report out," where a few hundred people gather in an auditorium to review and...

tl;dr: In this post, Mark reflects on the 25th anniversary of the term "Lean Production," delving into the original article that coined it. He...

Dr. W. Edwards Deming's last book was The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education. In Chapter 5, Deming writes, "Transformation in any organization will...

Here's a fascinating article: "How Toyota brought its famed manufacturing method to India." The piece starts with a story about a classic Toyota management practice...

There's an excellent blog post on the Virginia Mason Medical Center site: "Does respecting co-workers make patients safer?" As a leader in adopting and adapting...

"Shadowing" is a very powerful method. In a healthcare setting, we can shadow patients or staff to better understand the "current state" of how...