Monthly Archives: December 2016
My Article on Healthcare Supply Chain Lessons from Other Industries
Cardinal Health has posted my article on their website:
Creating a New "Gold Standard" - Healthcare Supply Chain Best Practices from Other Industries
You can view...
Time for Some Holiday Downtime… and Gemba Claus is Comin’ to Town
I’m going to take some time off through January 2nd… and I hope you enjoy the holidays, as well.
It’s an annual tradition, dating back to 2009… my annual posting of the parody song “Gemba Claus is Comin’ to Town.”
What are the 10 Most Read LeanBlog.org Posts of the Second Half of 2016?
I think this will be my last post before taking some time off for Christmas and the New Year (other than tomorrow's reposting of...
Changing the Culture: Cursing Football Coaches, Attacking the Change Agent
John W. Parks IV, pictured at left, is a Professor of Percussion at Florida State University. He was one of my favorite people during my...
#TBT: What CFO Magazine Wrote About #Lean in 2009
I first blogged about this article back in 2009 and it's still online:
"Keen to Be Lean"
The sub headline talks about hospitals being "desperate to...
A New Experiment: Highlights from my September Podcast with Steve Spear
I hope you're a regular listener to my Lean Blog Podcast series, where I've interviewed authors and Lean leaders since 2006.
I've been doing podcasts...
Guest Post: What Will Process Excellence Look Like in 2025?
Mark's Note: Today's guest post is brought to you through a media partnership between LeanBlog.org and PEX Network. Lean Blog readers can get a 15%...
Free Webinar: How to Improve End-of-Year Improvement Reporting
Update: See the bottom of the post for the webinar recording.
I get to talk with many people who are leading improvement efforts in different...
“The reign of the king-leader is gone” at GM? What about healthcare?
I was happy to see an engineer (Chemical Engineering) and a General Motors leader, Alicia Boler Davis, on the cover of the Northwestern University...
But Pigs and Corn Aren’t Cars! #Lean in Farming
I don't know anything about farming. The only time I spend on "farms" is visits to wineries that grow grapes, as I've blogged about...
#TBT: Part 2, A Year of KaiNexus Webinars, July through December, Lean, Change, Continuous...
Following up on last week's post where I shared KaiNexus webinars from the first half of the year....
Again, one of the things I do...
Podcast #269 – Brian MacNeice & James Bowen, “Powerhouse” Book, Toyota, Mayo
Joining me for Episode #269 are Brian MacNeice & James Bowen, co-authors of the recently released book Powerhouse: Insider Accounts into the World's Top High-performance Organizations....
