Tag: LAME

Eric Ries and Lean Startups in the NY Times

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Looking ahead to Wednesday's free LEI webinar "Lessons from Lean Startups" with Eric Ries, it's exciting to see Eric and Steve Blank featured in...

Lean is “Taking Canadian Healthcare by Storm,” but Look Out for...

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In an article ("Assembly required: Health care from the Toyota factory floor") from Canada's National Post newspaper says Lean healthcare is "taking Canadian healthcare...

Lucian Leape Loathes Lean or “L.A.M.E.”?

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Noted patient safety expert Dr. Lucian Leape spoke out recently about medical school culture being a root cause of poor quality (see my blog...

President Obama at “the Gemba”

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Keeping things light on a Saturday... New York Magazine has a funny photo story series of President Obama on tours of different factories and...

L.A.M.E. as Heard on NPR?

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Oh no, it seems like a L.A.M.E. ("Lean As Misguidedly Executed") story on NPR's All Things Considered program. No wonder some people hate the...

Lean in Sweden: Tools < Thinking

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I had an incredible visit to a hospital in Stockholm yesterday, to walk the "gemba" (the actual workplace)   to see their lean improvement...

Superficial Lean Laboratory Explanation

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Laboratory Equipment - Easy Lean Lab Exercises When I see "Easy Lean" or, as I also saw recently in a consultant's promotion, "Instant Lean," I...

Leanies of the World, Unite!

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Will the Real Lean Production Please Stand Up? | Labor Notes Yesterday, I blogged about how a nurses' union in Canada was supporting the province's...

A Nurses Union in Canada Supports Lean

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telegraphjournal.com - Lean process, big results I'll write more on this topic of unions and Lean tomorrow, but I wanted to share this story from...

Ten (Mostly) Common Misconceptions About Toyota & Lean

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Ten Common Misconceptions About Toyota | Quality Digest I found this interesting column from Quality Digest, by Stewart Anderson, a guy who says he has...

Hotels Give “Lean” a Bad Name??

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Housekeepers' Giant "Hope Quilt" Puts Hotel Job Injuries in Spotlight | Labor Notes Articles like this are incredibly frustrating to see. It makes me think...

Probably Not Meant to be an Illustration of “5S”

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I was watching the NBC web series (via iTunes podcasts) called "Ctrl" the other day (I'm a big fan of Tony Hale from the...