Tag: Toyota

Lean is, of course, not about a better way to build cars. It's a transferrable philosophy, management system, and methodology that is being applied in many different settings and industries, including healthcare. I'm often told (sometimes by somebody who is being sort of huffy): "Patients are not cars." [...]

Lean healthcare really is a global movement. Last year, when I went to Japan, we had people in the group from all across Asia,...

I'm going to be attending the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco next month, as a "faculty member," a moderator for a session, TBD,...

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...

I stumbled across an article from the Inc. magazine archives from 1987, so it's today's "Throwback Thursday." In 1987, I was starting high school and...

I saw this story when it originally appeared online as part of a local public radio station in California. It was now picked up nationally...

I've been studying and working with Lean for 20 years now and I love Lean because I'm still learning and getting better at this...

My guests for episode #226 are Steve Hoeft and Dr. Robert (Bob) Pryor from Baylor Scott & White Health in Texas. Bob serves as President, Chief...

The title here doesn't refer to LinkedIn's technology, their website, solving or causing problems. I'm referring to a post I wrote there the other day...

Jack Dorsey is well known among tech circles, as a co-founder of Twitter (he's @Jack) and, now, as the CEO of Square. I'm a...

I hope you might have access to this interesting article from the Wall St. Journal: "Toyota Veteran Rises to Corporate Office From Factory Floor."...

When we introduce the idea of Lean to healthcare organizations, it's very common for somebody (often a senior physician) to say something like, "But we...