Monthly Archives: November 2006
Linking Lean Thinking to Education – Conference Notes: Womack’s vision of a ‘Gemba University’
By Luke Van Dongen
I am a huge fan of Jim Womack's ability to identify and describe problems within complex systems simply and absolutely. Womack...
Overpaid Dummies Voting with their Feet at Ford
Blue-collar exodus brings new challenges - 11/30/06 - The Detroit News Online:UPDATE: In case some of you don't know my history of writing...
Why "Pull" for Hospitals?
Before any of you give a knee jerk reaction about how "pull is good, push is bad" --- I agree with you... pull is...
“Assembly Line Medicine”
I give a lot of lean overview presentations to healthcare audiences. While I talk mostly about the application of lean concepts to healthcare (problem...
Applying Little’s Law at the Hospital
This post is partly in tribute to Peter and his Little's Law blogging at shmula.com (it's not all Little's Law all the time, however)....
Leaner Carmakers = Higher Rental Car Prices
by Mike LopezA perfect example of a locally optimized system. According to an article in Businesweek, car rental firms have benefited from a "subsidy"...
Calling Out to All Lean Scientists
by Mike LopezAre you a scientist practicing Lean in your research? Are you trying to apply Lean to your research? We need to talk....
Chrysler’s Waste of Overproduction
My dad alerted me to this article from Automotive News. It's not available free online, I have a pdf copy that I could...
Cutting Corners or Cutting out Waste?
cbs4boston.com - Pats Install Synthetic Turf At Gillette Stadium
I was watching the Bears/Patriots game yesterday and the announcers mentioned that a new artificial turf...
Enlightening Top Leadership on the Benefits of Lean: A Conversation with Lean Pioneer Norman...
Here is LeanBlog Podcast #11, once again with Norman Bodek of PCS Press and the author of many books, including Kaikaku: The Power and...
Lean Should be Better Supported by HR
Dr. Monica Tracey of Oakland University's Pawley Institute and I have published another article on our original research on lean and HR. This one...
Poor Quality Costs Hospitals
Hospital-acquired infections take toll on bottom lines - USATODAY.comOne of the problems that hospitals are trying to reduce, through lean methods and other good...
