Monthly Archives: September 2007
Dare to Wear this Button?
I've written before about the "Ask Me" campaign that runs in many hospitals, usually in context of "ask me if I've washed my hands."...
From Autos to Healthcare
In Shift, Auto Workers Flee to Health-Care Jobs - WSJ.com:This story caught my ear, first, when I heard it on the Wall Street Journal...
Bad Systems: TSA at DFW Terminal A
I'm going to try to tie this into Lean, or so I think. I had the most mind-numbing experience at the Dallas-Fort Worth...
Relying on Memory Leads to Errors
Patient Safety Blog - Telling Our StoriesHere is an unfortunate story about a surgeon operating on the wrong side of an 86 year-old man,...
LeanBlog Podcast #31 — David Meier on ‘Toyota Talent,’ Standardization, and the San Antonio...
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LeanBlog Podcast #31 is a discussion with David Meier, most recently the co-author of the book Toyota Talent, written with Dr. Jeffrey Liker.
In this...
Dell to Focus on Long Term?
Can Michael Dell Refocus His Namesake? - New York TimesThe Toyota Way philosophy preaches a focus on the long term business objectives or as...
Updated: Press leaving Toyota for Chrysler
Autoblog.com reportThis is surprising -- Toyota's top U.S. executive, Jim Press, who had been the first American named as a Toyota corporate director, is...
Lean in the USA Today
USA Today - Lantech has success all wrapped upIt's a brief mention, but a positive mention of Lean in the USA Today Money section...
Duct Taping the Dreamliner
Flightblogger: Temporary Fasteners Causing Major Problems for 787 ProgramOk, so Boeing isn't using duct tape in their efforts to cobble together the first Dreamliner...
Leading Lean A-Z
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, co-author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to LeanDecades of knowledge in lean have been passed on, written down, turned into curriculums and...
We Must Follow Standardized Work, Right?
The Informed Patient - WSJ.comHere's an article ($$) about hospitals working to prevent bedsores or "pressure ulcers" as they are called. I didn't...
Worst. Employee Handbook. Ever.
FTD.de - Business English - Business English - I've found the worst employee handbook ever
The title of this post comes with apologies to Comic...
