Yo! Continuous Flow Sushi
Here’s a fun video for a Saturday. In England, I love the Yo! Sushi chain of restaurants. It’s basically a continuous flow conveyor belt of sushi. You sit down and take what you want from the belt. The trays are…
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Where Did I Start with Lean?
I love it when I have a chance to meet Lean Blog readers and Twitter followers in the “real world.” In the past few weeks, I’ve finally met, in person, @flynncraig and @bryanlvt (at the Dan Jones Lean Healthcare Transformation…
One More Request for the Lean Blog Survey
Thanks to the first 50 readers who answered my short survey about the Lean Blog. I appreciate the feedback. I will probably collect surveys through the end of the week, I’ll reflect, and I’ll share my reflections along with some…
Measuring for Improvement
Note: Welcome LEI visitors… you can check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org, as I hope you’ll come back. Here are some other recent posts: Where Did I Start With Lean? One Purple Audacious Goal Caution! Warning Signs in…
Career Advice for Moving to Healthcare
Today’s blog post comes from a good friend of the Lean Blog, Jim Baran. He’s one of the top recruiters who is dedicated to the lean field. He has managed a number of “lean healthcare” searches and has been very…
One Purple Audacious Goal… Northwestern Football or Healthcare Improvement
This might seem like a post about football… but stick with me even if you’re not a sports fan. Many of you regular readers know I’m a Northwestern Wildcats football fanatic, from my days as an undergraduate. I was there…
John Shook on A3 Reports in Sloan Management Review
The Magazine » Toyota’s Secret: The A3 Report « MIT Sloan Management Review John Shook had an article published in the latest SMR, based on his book Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement,…
Caution! Warning Signs in the UK
I was fortunate to be in England for five days last week. I saw the “gemba” at five hospitals in three days and attended the Lean Enterprise Academy Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit on Friday. One thing I was taking pictures…
“Lean Won’t Work Here… We’re Different!” Is That Really True?
I’m sure anybody who has done any work with Lean has heard these words said in one form or another, often prefaced with a “You don’t understand…” We’re different. Diff’rent (it’s fun to spell that way, like the old show…
Random Lean Thoughts – July 13
Today’s blog post will be just a bunch of random thoughts. For one, I just got back from London last night after a whirlwind Lean healthcare tour. I visited five hospitals between London and the south of England in three…
The New GM Is No Longer the "Leaner" GM?
I’ve complained about this before, it hardly fazes me any more when the media say that GM is going to be “leaner” in the future. Of course, Lean Thinkers realize they mean “smaller” not “more lean” in the sense of…
I’d Like to "5S" the Wimbledon TV Broadcast Screen
Hello from jolly old England. I’m in London for the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit being put on today by Daniel T. Jones of the Lean Enterprise Academy. This post, strangely enough, has nothing to do with healthcare. But, I was…
