Tag: Visual Management
Let’s Save Patients by Standardizing the Standardized Colors
Update: The charity auctions that ended last night raised $420 for Friends of the Orphans. Thanks to all who bid and bought (and donated...
Visual Management in a Prepared Foods Counter
As my wife and I are in the process of moving to San Antonio, we've visited the local Central Market grocery store there during...
Presenting Lab Test Results in a More Visual Way – Lessons...
Today's post isn't strictly about Lean, but I was reminded by a reader to mention something really cool that I saw in Wired Magazine...
Invest in Robots or in People? Amazon Makes the Lean Decision
I'm finally blogging about a Wall Street Journal article from just before Christmas - it's still a generally interesting topic, I think. The article...
Podcast #108 – Gwendolyn Galsworth, Respect for People and “Work That...
Episode #108 is a discussion with Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, recorded in person at the 2010 Shingo Prize Conference in Salt Lake City. Gwendolyn was...
Weekend Fun: Funny Plane Picture That’s Not Really “Visual Management”
There's a series of airplane photos, of South Africa's Kalula Airlines, that have been going around the web, including being posted in some blogs...
Lessons from a “Like Lean” Millionaire
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One of my blog themes is the idea of "Like Lean" - practices that seem very much like the...
UPS: Disrespect for People?
by Dan Markovitz
I took this picture of a UPS truck recently in NYC. (The orange signs say "SAFETY.") At first I thought, "Great! UPS...
Like Lean: Solving Health Care Problems By Design
Solving Health Care Problems By Design : NPRThanks to Andrew B. for passing this along - audio and web text from NPR with some...
It Might Be Bad Design If Instructions Are Required…
... or if it's too easy to make mistakes.
One of my favorite books of all time is Donald Norman's The Design of Everyday Things....
Observations from One End of the Hospital
Lean Leap to Health Care #7 (click for Part #6)
by Scott McDuffee
"Where is the main entrance? Why do I follow the signs to HERE?...
Interesting Visual Controls Example from a Hospital
Thanks to Luke for this story, which he allowed me to share:
I was touring a new client hospital with the Director of Inpatient Services...
