IndustryWeek : Prerequisites for Lean Success: Learning From Toyota This webcast is today, Wednesday July 18 at 2 PM EDT. I can’t log in live, I hope it’s archived. Can somebody volunteer to take some notes and post a summary…
Fury Over 84 000 pound NHS Trip To Japan (from The Northern Echo) With apologies to the Got Boondoggle? lean blog, this story is about a group of NHS hospital executives and physicians taking a study trip to Toyota in…
P&G’s Global Target: Shelves of Tiny Stores – WSJ.com: Interesting article in the WSJ about how Proctor & Gamble has had to adapt its approach in countries like Mexico, with different types of customers and different retail models: “In marketing…
By Andrew Castle: Mark’s note: Today’s guest blogger is a friend of the blog and a consultant who does Lean work for the UK’s National Health Service. The following link takes you to an article on the BBC website. Essentially…
PodcasterNews – Industry Report Mark Graban Guest Podcaster I don’t do the commentary thing on my LeanBlog Podcast. But, I was invited by Ken Rayment to “take over” his podcast for a day. In the Podcast, I talk about the…
IGLC Keynote Address: “In this Keynote Address Mr. Bodek will be discussing the fundamentals behind the Kaizen philosophy of continuous improvement. He will speak to how the Construction Industry can get rid of the ‘Punch-list Syndrome.’” Knowing Norman, this talk…
APM Marketplace (Business/Economy radio) As you’ve read here, I’m trying to help get the word out that we should be not just focusing on access to care, but also focusing on quality of care — preventable medical mistakes. I think…
In my morning reading yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised to see the phrase “root cause” in two stories I’ve written about here: Preventable Medical Errors (free, Modesto Bee) Deadly Products from China ($$, WSJ) I have a post I’ve written,…
I’m very excited to announce that I will be recording a LeanBlog Podcast interview with Dr. Sami Bahri, the “First Lean Dentist,” on Tuesday July 17. If you have any questions for Dr. Bahri, you can email me at leanpodcast@gmail.com…
Parkland Hospital Deploys Galvanon’s MediKiosk(TM) in the ER to Decrease Patient Wait Times It’s been discussed here before, how hospitals are just as susceptible as manufacturers are to the “Siren Song” of technology. This time, it appears Parkland Hospital (here…
Value-Stream Improvement for the Office and Services The Lean Enterprise Institute is giving a free webinar on August 2nd, featuring a hospital that presented at the First Global Lean Healthcare Summit, Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. This webinar…
If you’re a fan of the LeanBlog Podcast, or other Podcasts, please consider submitting nominations for the 3rd Annual Podcast awards. Here are a few podcasts I am subscribed to: Lean/Manufacturing Dwight Bowen’s Competing Podcast Better Process Podcast Gary Connor’s…
