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

The Lean Enterprise Institute (a former employer of mine from 2009 to 2011) has announced a new CEO, the third in their history following founder James P. Womack and his successor, John Shook. Their ...

3 Okt 20175min

Three or four months ago, in the midst of a discussion on LinkedIn about patient safety, somebody made reference to a 1966 cover story from the magazine "Look." Look was a very popular competitor to "...

26 Sep 201719min

Free Webinar Today on #Lean Collaboration Across Companies and Industries I hope you'll join me today for a KaiNexus webinar that I'm hosting. The topic is near and dear to my heart (as well as to ot...

21 Sep 20175min

Texas Hospital Saves Money Occasionally With Lean Six Sigma... But Can Do More, More Often? I saw this headline the other day about University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas: "UMC finds savings th...

20 Sep 20177min

This Organization Chose Not to "Deploy #Lean" Because a Leader Thought it is Not Customer Focused? I posted an article on LinkedIn last week as a companion article and summary of my podcast with Dean...

12 Sep 20177min

I've long been appreciative of the work that Toyota does, through their non-profit TSSC subsidiary, to help non-profits and community organizations improve. The latest example of that is some work do...

11 Sep 20177min

One challenge with teaching Lean is that there isn't aways a consistent definition that's used by everybody. Some of the definitions are really bad. Some of them are just different from others. Let's ...

30 Aug 20178min

I'm excited to announce that the audiobook version of our book Practicing Lean is complete! It's available for purchase via LeanPub.com and it might be available through other channels in the future....

29 Aug 20174min