Monthly Archives: August 2009
Confirmed: Toyota to Shut Down NUMMI Production
It's been long rumored, but is now confirmed by Toyota that they are going to stop production at their ground breaking NUMMI plant in...
Quality and Cost Always Go Together with Lean Thinking
This is an old story, from May, that I've meant to write about for a while. Peter Orszag, the Director of the Office of...
New Blog: "Grand Rounds"
I'd like to welcome a new blogger to the Lean Healthcare space: Thomas L. Jackson of Rona Consulting and author of these books:
Hoshin Kanri...
The Dawn of a New Day in Software Development…
Mark's note: Running the risk of being called lazy, I'd like to introduce another guest blogger, Steve Hebert. We first traded emails a few...
Two Types of Cycle Time = Confusing
This blog post started as a parenthetical comment about cycle time in my last blog post from this morning. But the parenthetical grew out...
‘Takt Time’ for Apple’s App Store and for Healthcare
Sunday, I read this New York Times article about Apple's "App Store" for the iPhone and iPod Touch (I've been a pretty happy iPhone...
Jerry Jones is NOT a Lean Thinker, Apparently?
Giant video board in new Cowboys stadium causes problems for Titans punter - The Huddle - USATODAY.com
Are you ready for some football????
OK, so nobody...
LeanBlog Podcast #73 – Doug Burgess, Xerox
Episode #73 is a conversation with Doug Burgess, Senior VP of Corporate Lean Six Sigma for Xerox.
We talk about the Lean Six Sigma approach...
All of the Fox News ThedaCare Videos
Here are all of the videos, embedded from Fox News. Click here for a page with summaries of each.
As of October 2011, you can...
ThedaCare News Coverage & More from Fox News
This is a big day for Lean in healthcare, as here is a link to FoxNews.com with five longer videos about ThedaCare and their...
ThedaCare and Lean to be Featured on Fox News
Tune in TONIGHT, Friday August 21, 10 PM on Fox News Channel. See my blog post about the links to online video at FoxNews.com.The...
Q&A #2 – Michael Balle, "The Lean Manager" – Nursing
I recently invited questions for Michael Balle, the author of the Shingo Prize winning book The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround. He...
