Medical treatment takes ‘lean’ tack Here’s a great Lean healthcare overview, a news story that appeared in the Chicago Tribune last month about a hospital in Illinois (the above link). Lots of great data and examples in there about the…
By Bryan Lund, guest contributor to the Lean Blog: I posted the following question on LinkedIn.com as Mark noted in a previous blog entry: “How important is the past in learning about how to handle the future? Specifically…I think that…
Monday is Labor Day, a holiday in the United States. Since one of the main pillars of the Toyota Production System is “respect for people,” let’s revisit previous Lean Blog posts that focus on that concept (click on the “Respect…
Here is another look at the “lean obstacles” survey questions, again breaking it down by some key demographic factors (more details here). Looking first at the split between Private and Public companies, there don’t appear to be any major disparities…
How Boeing Got Going – TIME Evolving Excellence’s Kevin Meyer will comment on this after his vacation, I’m sure (read his other Boeing comments starting here). There’s a piece in Time Magazine and it makes a very misguided reference to…
