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Joining me for Episode #351 of the podcast are my friends Joel Tosi and Dion Stewart, co-founders of the company Dojo & Co. They’re the authors of the new book (to be released on November 19) called Creating Your Dojo:…
Healthcare – Creating Value for Patients “Imagine walking into a restaurant and being seated. Sometime after your meal, you receive the check and find an additional charge that was not indicated on the menu or previously mentioned by your waiter.…
Many of you have asked if I’m at the AME Conference this week in Chicago. I am not, as I had a previous invitation to speak at the Swiss Lean Conference today. My theme was Kaizen — engaging everybody, everywhere,…
It’s great to have Jamie Flinchbaugh back for another episode of the Lean Whiskey podcast. We linked up on Halloween night to share a drink and ideas about lean. We discuss air travel, which we both experience in volume, and…
My guest today is Tim Turner, who joined us previously in 2010 for episode #90. Tim was the lead author for a book called One Team on All Levels: Stories from Toyota Team Members that was about the Toyota plant and its…
Happy Halloween! I’ll actually be home to hand out treats as a countermeasure for possible tricks. A year ago, I did a KaiNexus webinar on Halloween that was a lot of fun. There were only two complaints about elements of…
A Toyota team applied the Toyota Production System in a Brazilian hospital to improve emergency care, reduce wasted motion, shorten waits, and make work easier for staff–showing TPS can improve healthcare systems, not just factories. When I was in Brazil…
Healthcare – Creating Value for Patients If you set a target without providing a clear path on how you want it achieved, and then punish staff when they fail to achieve it, then staff will achieve the target – by any means necessary and…
t;dr: A visit to Toyota’s North American headquarters offered more than a virtual plant tour. It revealed how Toyota blends the Toyota Production System, Lean leadership, and learning from crisis to build trust, improve communication, and continuously improve–inside and outside…
When I blogged a summary of my recent Brazil trip, I said I’d write more about my visit to a hospital… so here’s that post. Thanks again to my hosts, Gemba Group, the consulting and training firm that has been…
Here’s an article from Bloomberg BusinessWeek: GE’s Larry Culp Faces Ultimate CEO Test in Trying to Save a Once-Great Company Very early on, the article mentions Culp’s advocacy for “Toyota-style lean manufacturing.” Or is he pushing “Danaher-style lean manufacturing” and…
As I’ve shared before, one of my goals with my book Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More was to reach audiences that haven’t heard of “Process Behavior Charts” (aka Control Charts or Statistical Process Control). In December,…
