Tag: Toyota

Mark's note: Today's vacation post is from my good friend Dan Markovitz, who normally blogs here.  Listen to my podcasts with him here...

One thing I have enjoyed in the past few years is meeting and working with more people with direct experience working at Toyota (including...

In this month's ASQ blog post, their CEO Paul Borawski writes a new post "The Intersection of Quality and Social Responsibility," where he defines...

I'm not sure Google has much of a market for a $299 media player (with the AppleTV and Roku players being under $100), but...

Here is a transcript of last week's podcast with Eric Ries talking about the impact that Toyota legend Taiichi Ohno had on his work...

Hat tip to John Shook and the Lean Enterprise Institute for pointing this out via his email newsletter  -- today would have been the...

When it first came out, I was a big fan of Michael Lewis' book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game about the Oakland...

It's always great to see stories in the major media outlets about engaging front-line staff in improvement ideas. Recently, we had a piece in...

Friday night's PBS program the Nightly Business Report had a nice feature on the use of Lean at Good Samaritan Hospital in Downer's Grove,...

I loved the book  Moneyball by Michael Lewis, but I haven't seen the movie yet (I hear it's good). To me, it was a story...

I volunteered to give a presentation last Friday for the North Texas Society for Healthcare Risk Management, where  I was able to debut some...

First off, I'm not trying to dredge up a "Lean vs. Six Sigma" battle here. I'm not "anti-Six Sigma." I'm not a huge proponent...