TOM WALSH: Custom vehicle builder Spartan Motors has a can-do culture The article doesn’t mention “Lean,” but it’s nice to see a positive story coming out of the manufacturing world in Michigan. No surprise, it’s from a small company instead…
IndustryWeek : Foundations of the Toyota Production System: Establish Standardized Work & Sustain Your Lean Initiative with TWI Training I’m hoping to attend this online, or at least I’ll watch the archive. This Webcast will also feature Patrick Graupp, who…
Our friend and sometimes blogger Bill Hanover posted a comment a few days ago about the arrival of a baby boy – congrats. He joked about “Lean” names, so I’ll share a few suggestions (and feel free to submit some):…
I wrote about the “Ask Me Why” button last week and here’s another one I’ve meant to write about for a while. My wife was given this button at a work event where somebody talked about leadership. The simple button…
Institute for Healthcare Improvement Article This article from the IHI talks about the need to find “muda” (waste) in hospitals. They say: “In the health care arena, not a patient among us — or nurse, receptionist, surgeon, physical therapist, attendant…
Following up again on the “5 Whys” survey, I’m still planning on going through and categorizing the analyzing the full responses, but I wanted to go ahead and release the full text of the responses. Download the PDF here. Example…
The article isn’t online, you’ll have to join the club lucky enough (ahem) to fly American Airlines to read the gem of an article from American Way magazine titled “Pass the Buck to Make a Buck.” The main point is…
‘Chicago Way’ is no way to run mass-transit system It’s something I’ve written about before, about how the media and the public tend to blame individuals, or at least we want a scapegoat. Who screwed up? Whose fault? This has…
Star-Telegram.com 09/03/2007 A closer look at four survey participants: There was a feature in the local paper a few weeks back about what different types of employees get paid, here is an example from UPS: “TIM DIXON, $125,000 Tim Dixon’s…
Here’s a question from Gerry, a blog reader: Once you do a 2 or 3 day Value Stream Mapping event, would you do another event on the same process to refine it even more? One of our CI / Lean…
Together We Innovate The WSJ has a Saturday report section on business and innovation, including the article I’ve linked to here (which can also be found here for free). Lean and a focus on process and standardized work is sometimes…
I’m prepping for a presentation I’m giving next week on Lean leadership styles and I ran across tihs great quote that John Shook shared at his presentation at the Global Lean Healthcare Summit earlier this year. I wanted to share…