Lean Blog Audio: Practical Lean Thinking, Psychological Safety, and Continuous Improvement

http://leanblog.org/audio70 How did a few episodes of HBO's "Silicon Valley" make Mark Graban think about continuous improvement and the need to avoid a "culture of fear" in an organization?

20 Jul 20157min

How can the NHS reduce waiting times without throwing money at the problem? Are they using Lean to increase capacity and throughput in a way that also improves quality? The recipe is "reduce waste."Th...

18 Jul 201511min

http://leanblog.org/audio68 Before I head out on vacation, here is a reader question that I am sharing for your input.I'm sharing this with permission and I'm obscuring a few details at their request...

30 Jun 20155min

http://leanblog.org/audio67 My wife and I are getting ready to leave tomorrow night for a two week vacation, so it jogged my memory about this story I saw back in December in the WSJ: Airlines Try to...

29 Jun 20157min

http://leanblog.org/audio66 I'm a big nerd in that I love reading newspapers basically cover to cover. I'm a nerd in many ways, I guess. You don't have to be a survey nerd to take my short reader sur...

26 Jun 20156min

http://leanblog.org/audio65 The Wall St Journal loves writing about how "Just In Time" (JIT) is a risky inventory strategy. See my past posts about how the WSJ is so often wrong on this.The WSJ seem ...

25 Jun 20159min

http://leanblog.org/audio64 When I teach about Kaizen and continuous improvement, I try to use scenarios and cases to help people think through how they would respond to, coach, and collaborate on em...

24 Jun 201511min

http://leanblog.org/audio63 I've been intrigued by the "Lean Startup" movement since I first saw Eric Ries speak at MIT back in late 2009. I've read his book The Lean Startup, have attended a bunch o...

19 Jun 20159min