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Mark’s note: Running the risk of being called lazy, I’d like to introduce another guest blogger, Steve Hebert. We first traded emails a few years ago as Steve was blogging a bit about lean concepts in software developments (his old…
This blog post started as a parenthetical comment about cycle time in my last blog post from this morning. But the parenthetical grew out of control and I thought it would only confuse things in that post. So, hopefully, it’s…
Sunday, I read this New York Times article about Apple’s “App Store” for the iPhone and iPod Touch (I’ve been a pretty happy iPhone user for the past three months after switching over from BlackBerry). I’m going to try to…
Giant video board in new Cowboys stadium causes problems for Titans punter – The Huddle – USATODAY.com Are you ready for some football???? OK, so nobody ever accused Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones of being a lean thinker… but did…
Here are all of the videos, embedded from Fox News. Click here for a page with summaries of each. As of October 2011, you can view the videos on the Fox News website. What is ThedaCare? Paid Less…
This is a big day for Lean in healthcare, as here is a link to FoxNews.com with five longer videos about ThedaCare and their quality and cost improvement efforts (and results). I thought last night’s story (transcript) that aired on…
Tune in TONIGHT, Friday August 21, 10 PM on Fox News Channel. See my blog post about the links to online video at FoxNews.com. The “On the Record” show with Greta Van Susteren visited Appleton, Wisconsin and ThedaCare, one of…
I recently invited questions for Michael Balle, the author of the Shingo Prize winning book The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround. He has a new book (published by LEI, my employer), recently published, called “The Lean Manager.” Here…
Panel Round II: Wait, Wait : NPR It’s unfortunate that NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” show would mock Starbucks and their Lean efforts, as had been somewhat half-documented in the WSJ (and discussed here on this blog). But, I…
Area hospitals make strides in quality of care — Page 1 — Times Union – Albany NY The CEO of a health system in New York writes his local paper with reports of Lean success: Northeast Health has adopted a…
Checking In With Denver Health CEO Patricia Gabow On A “Model” Health Care System – Kaiser Health News Dr. Patty Gabow has been one of the leading CEO voices talking about Lean in Healthcare, as shown in the article linked…
Following up on Part 1 of my Reader Survey reflection exercise, here is Part 2. Thanks for the 113 survey responses and for the time you took to give free-form feedback. I won’t share the generally positive comments and praise…
