
Automakers & Car Dealers Should Survey Customers
http://leanblog.org/audio102 The world (especially the world wide web) is full of surveys. Tell us how we're doing! Your satisfaction is important to us! We see this so often, it's easy to become num...
9 Marras 201510min

Confusion over #Lean Manufacturing, Lean Healthcare,
http://leanblog.org/audio101 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, and maybe serving as a mentor. T...
6 Marras 20159min

How Kaizen & Continuous Improvement are Key to
Many of you don’t care about football, but you might find it interesting, as I did, to learn that Northwestern’s defensive coordinator Mike Hankwitz is apparently a fan of Kaizen... http://leanblog.o...
8 Loka 20155min

Donald Trump's Red Hat (and Other Politicians' Hats)
These Donald Trump hats (and hats for other candidates including Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush) are made by a Newark company, Unionwear. Lean is their strategy and their production system. That’s how t...
4 Loka 20158min

"Learning to be Lean"
http://leanblog.org/audio98 There's a really good article that was published by Modern Healthcare as a special report, written by Sabriya Rice. Sabriya spent a week observing a rapid improvement even...
28 Syys 20156min

This Hospital CEO Was Never Going to Get Lean
I have many experiences in healthcare that I haven't blogged about. I try not to write posts that say, "Hey, you won't believe what happened yesterday," for a number of reasons. But, sometimes, my mem...
24 Syys 20153min

Better Change Leadership as a Countermeasure
Having a model like this helps prevent errors, such as jumping to implement Lean tools before the organization understands WHY change is necessary. You have to engage and enroll people in change, not ...
23 Syys 20158min

5S: The Good, the Bad, and the Extreme in Japanese Hospitals
My two previous trips to Japan have been incredible experiences, both personally and professionally. I'm planning to go back in December with a tour group I'm helping organize with Kaizen Institute. W...
21 Syys 20157min



















