Tag: Aviation
Guest Post: Captain Sully Talks about Lean and Healthcare Safety
Mark's note: I am thrilled to be able to bring you this guest post from my friend and fellow lean healthcare author Naida Grunden....
Of 777s and Heart Rate Monitors
In recent years, healthcare has been learning a lot of lessons from aviation -- including checklists and "Crew Resource Management," as written about in...
Of Course An Individual Got Blamed for this TSA Airport Security...
Update (1/7/10): Turns out the TSA agent walked away from his post. I'd certainly hold someone accountable for that, since it was a conscious...
Lean Methods for Aerospace and Healthcare in Ontario
Article - How Toyota builds carsHere's an article from Canada about how Toyota (an automaker) manages to be influential to Bombardier (maker of planes)...
Leadership Lessons from Larry Kellner
Corner Office - Bad News or Good, Continental's Chief Wants to Know - Question - NYTimes.comThis interview with Larry Keller, CEO of Continental Airlines,...
Defects in Air Travel — At Least I Got There Safely
Ah, what a day yesterday. You'd think getting from Boston to Philadelphia would be easy. I'm here, teaching my "Key Concepts of Lean in...
Bad News Not Flowing Up at Boeing?
Tomorrow's blog post today... not that anyone will be reading anything non-Michael Jackson related. RIP. A modern tidbit... I learned about the news via...
Airbus "Violated Key Tenet of Lean"?
Airbus Aims to Pull Back Without Stalling - WSJ.com:This recent article about Airbus talks about facing a challenge of declining airplane orders.Airbus said Friday...
Airplane Boarding – The Least Pro-Active Process Ever?
As a frequent flyer, I really try to turn off the process thinking part of my brain, for sanity's sake.However, one thing that constantly...
This Pilot Didn’t Follow Standardized Work?
Plane that crashed near Buffalo was on autopilot After "Sully" and his crew were lauded as heroes for following checklists, keeping calm, and landing...
Moving Backward on Airline Safety?
Three airlines drop self-reporting safety program - USATODAY.comDropping this program has got to be one of those "process indicators" of airline safety. I can't...
Follow Up on Mobile Boarding Passes
Sorry, not trying to turn this into a travel blog, but I tried the mobile boarding pass again (my earlier post).
There's some glitch in...