Curious Cat Management Improvement: Lean National Health System There’s a link on John’s blog to a Dan Jones presentation, along the lines of the British NHS lean initiative. It includes the classic Toyota thinking: “We get brilliant results from average…
Bloated NHS to get the Tesco treatment – Britain – Times Online: Thanks to Rob G. (from the UK) for pointing this out to me. There’s a great push for lean in the UK NHS. It’s even getting attention from…
shmula » queueing theory: part 1 As an Industrial Engineer, I get warm and tingly inside when I see someone blogging about Little’s Law. I know, I need to get a life. There is also a second posting. I left…
I received this email and I’m publishing it here with the permission of the anonymous author: In May, the TMMI Toyota Plant in Princeton, IN held an open house for family and friends of employees to come in and tour…
If you read the post below and the article from PC Magazine, you might have seen this quote: “The thing with computers and electronics is that people have the feeling that it’s basically impossible to buy things that were made…
News From PC Magazine: Can You Really Buy An American PC? Yes you can, it depends on what you mean by “American.” Dell has always built desktop PC’s and servers here in the U.S. By “built”, I mean “assembled”, as…
Issue #8 of Lean Progress is now available. You can download your copy now here: In it you will find an interview with Gary Smuda from Technicolor in the same format of interviews found in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to…
Seth’s Blog: My breakfast was right From Seth Godin: Room service just arrived, and my insanely complex OCD breakfast was exactly the way I ordered it. This was possibly a first. Then I discovered the reason. The person who brought…
BCNG Portals Page I’ve posted “lean healthcare” articles here about what’s described by the media as “ER congestion.” They always describe the sad situation where patients are kept in the ER hallway for a day or two before they can…
iPod City: Apple criticized for factory conditions There was a fairly shocking story in the Sunday Mail, a London newspaper, about the iPod factory conditions in China. The full text of the article isn’t available online, but I was able…
Dell: Facing Up To Past Mistakes I’ve written about this before and I think this article highlights some of the key differences between Toyota and Dell. Dell’s “Direct Model” has often been compared to Toyota and is sometimes called “lean”.…
This article appeared in the May 31st issue of APICS extra. It featured yours truly and covers the topic of the five whys. You can learn more about APICS by visiting www.apics.org. Why Do You Ask? By Douglas R. Kelly…
