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Thanks to my friends in the Michigan Quality System group, the internal Lean group at the University of Michigan Health System. They shared a video that was put together by Dr. Jack Billi, a long-time student of Lean and advocate…
As I wrote about last month, I love newspapers, so I felt like I fit into the culture last week when I spent five days of my vacation in London, a city I really love. People in England seem to…
I’m back from two weeks of vacation and I’m going to ease back into social media and the blog, which includes a free webinar tomorrow (see below). I hope you had a great two weeks. During my vacation, I had…
Before I head out on vacation, here is a reader question that I am sharing for your input.I’m sharing this with permission and I’m obscuring a few details at their request. Please read and leave a comment below the post.…
My wife and I are getting ready to leave tomorrow night for a two-week vacation, so it jogged my memory about this story I saw back in December in the WSJ: Airlines Try to Make Coach Classier. Anything that makes long…
Today’s post is a throwback to an essay that I originally wrote for the excellent book Lean-Led Hospital Design: Creating the Efficient Hospital of the Future, where it appears in an appendix with some other contributed essays. You can listen to…
I’m a big nerd in that I love reading newspapers basically cover to cover. I’m a nerd in many ways, I guess. You don’t have to be a survey nerd to take my short reader survey (and you might win…
Thanks everybody for reading my blog here in 2015! It’s been a great year so far… I appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to read and participate in the discussion and I hope you’ll continue visiting the…
The Wall St Journal loves writing about how “Just In Time” (JIT) is a risky inventory strategy. See my past posts about how the WSJ is so often wrong on this. The WSJ seem to only understand Lean as JIT, as opposed…
I’ve been intrigued by the “Lean Startup” movement since I first saw Eric Ries speak at MIT back in late 2009. I’ve read his book The Lean Startup, have attended a bunch of the conferences (speaking at two of them –…
When I teach about Kaizen and continuous improvement, I try to use scenarios and cases to help people think through how they would respond to, coach, and collaborate on employee ideas. One key point is that leaders have to thank…
The title here doesn’t refer to LinkedIn’s technology, their website, solving or causing problems. I’m referring to a post I wrote there the other day that has a Lean and Toyota angle to it. Click on the image to read…
