Tag: Toyota

Lean Healthcare featured on PBS Nightly Business Report

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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,...

‘Moneyball’ Lessons – Listen to Your Front-Line Staff

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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...

One-Question Poll on Healthcare Employee Idea & Suggestion Programs

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

Dear “Lean Six Sigma” Crowd – Lean is About Quality, Too

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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...

Build, Measure, Learn – in Startups, Healthcare, and Careers

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One reason I love applying Lean thinking in new arenas as my career progresses is that each shift in industry leads to new challenges...

Newt Endorses Lean & Six Sigma for Government; Staff Quits on...

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I met Newt Gingrich at the Ontario Hospital Association conference in late 2009, as I blogged about here: "Meeting Newt Gingrich, a Lean Champion." Yesterday...

Lean Lessons for Healthcare from a Boeing 737 Factory Video

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Podcaster Cali Lewis (a fellow DFW-area Texan) hosts a show called GeekBeat.tv, where she normally highlights new consumer tech gadgets and nerdy robots from...

Frequently Highlighted Passages in “Lean Hospitals”

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I love my Amazon Kindle (I have had a 2nd generation 3G Kindle for about two years). Amazon has recently made the device more...

Podcast #118 – Jim Womack on GM, Toyota & Lean Six...

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Episode #118 is a follow-up to podcast #116 with  Jim Womack, founder and former Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Institute, now their Senior Advisor...

Guest Post: What is “Yokoten?”

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Mark's Note: Today's post is from Al Norval, with the firm Lean Pathways, Inc. In the Lean world, we hear all kinds of Japanese...

Fox News Channel Understands “Lean” Better than the WSJ

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On Friday, there was yet another Wall Street Journal article about Lean (fixating as they always do on the "Just In Time" component). The...

Doofus and Leanie Cartoon #4 – GM vs. Toyota

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It has been a while since I've collaborated with artist Ed Butler on a "Doofus and Leanie" cartoon (Ed was also the artist for...
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