Are "visuals" and "visual management" the same thing? Are "visuals" always Lean, necessarily? In this post, I talk about the differences using an example from a hospital and my car's dashboard.
As Christmas approaches, I’m getting into the holiday spirit. So far, I’ve avoided hearing the Wham! song “Last Christmas,” so I have not yet faced “Wham-aggedon.” I was at my local northern Kentucky Kroger grocery store the other day. I’ll…
tl;dr: RAG and bowling charts trigger overreaction and hide real system behavior. Process Behavior Charts reveal whether performance is truly changing, helping leaders focus on causes instead of colors and make better improvement decisions. In my book Measures of Success:…
Joining me again for Episode #244 is Dan Markovitz. Today’s episode is part 2 of our discussion about his most recent book Building the Fit Organization: Six Core Principles for Making Your Company Stronger, Faster, and More Competitive, a recipient of the Shingo…
In addition to my blogging here, I write occasionally for our blog over at KaiNexus.com, where we have multiple contributors. I also do monthly webinars and the next one is on February 16, where Dr. Greg Jacobson and will talk about gaining…
Back in November, I had a chance to meet Nate Hurle, from Cleveland Clinic, as he was giving a presentation about their work with Lean and continuous improvement. As we chatted, I mentioned that I’d be in Ohio in early…
I’ve been studying and working with Lean for 20 years now and I love Lean because I’m still learning and getting better at this craft. I love seeing other people get excited about Lean when it’s new to them, when…
As my wife and I are in the process of moving to San Antonio, we’ve visited the local Central Market grocery store there during our house hunting trips. Behind the prepared foods counter is a visual management indicator for employees…
There’s a series of airplane photos, of South Africa’s Kalula Airlines, that have been going around the web, including being posted in some blogs as an example of the Lean principle of “visual management,” like this one: It made me…
Dear Lean Blog readers, I have an exciting opportunity here for a lucky reader. Gwendolyn Galsworth is author of outstanding books on visual management, including Visual Workplace, Visual Thinking: Creating Enterprise Excellence Through the Technologies of the Visual Workplace, and…
Visual-Lean Institute Forums ~ View Forum Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, a very popular guest on my Podcast, has a new web forum focused on visual management and “visuality.” It’s a new forum and, as I know with my LeanBoard, it can…
I’m happy to announce a winner in the LeanBlog Contest that was sponsored by American LED-gible, Inc (www.ledgible.com). I had three outstanding entries, so it was a tough decision, but the winner is Andrea, who submitted an example from a…
