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Let’s go with a light thought and topic for a Sunday, considering there are sad examples of medical malfeasance and poor management oversight in the news today. Following up on my blog post from last week about hotel room lighting…
Lean Leap to Health Care #11 (click for Part #10) by Scott McDuffee “Have a nice day.” When my daughters were younger, they would cheerfully wave at everyone as we drove around with the top down on my Jeep Wrangler.…
… or if it’s too easy to make mistakes. One of my favorite books of all time is Donald Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things. Not strictly a Lean book… even if you’re not a product designer, the book teaches…
Can Alan Mulally save Ford? – May. 11, 2009 Interesting story last month about Ford and CEO Alan Mulally. He’s a Toyota admirer and Lean devotee’ from his time at Boeing. FORTUNE magazine was allowed to share a diagram that…
IVF baby given to wrong woman – as couple’s last embryo was aborted | Mail Online This was front-page news in one of the UK papers that I read coming back from The Netherlands on Sunday. Coincidentally, I briefly saw…
By Scott McDuffee: The recent discussion of beignets at the Cafe Du Monde and breakfast sandwiches at Starbucks helped inspire the following. In concert with recent suggestions for using common language to get across lean principles in palatable ways, here…
Lean Leap to Health Care #10 (click for Part #9) by Scott McDuffee In my first Leap to Health Care blog, I mentioned using a two-pronged industry approach of Health Care and Defense – patch ’em up and blow ’em…
Here’s the 3rd in the “Doofus and Leanie” series (a parody of “Goofus and Gallant”) this time obviously inspired by recent discussions about the failures of “just in time” inventory strategies. Cartoons can be accessed via www.doofusandleanie.com. Text by Mark…
A Carmaker As A Model For A Hospital? – CBS News Virginia Mason Medical Center and their use of Lean and TPS was featured on the CBS Evening News on Saturday. This is huge, I think, for the lean healthcare…
The Myth of Multitasking – Dave Crenshaw I am long overdue on a review of this book, which I feel bad about because I really enjoyed it. Maybe I didn’t get to it because I was too busy multitasking… First…
Yesterday, I shared some old auto industry images and clips from the August 1980 LIFE magazine. More striking to me was an ad from Aetna health insurance, pictured below, the full ad and then some detailed clips below (click any…
I ended up having the chance to flip through a LIFE magazine from August 1980 and, given that was also a major recessionary period, it wasn’t huge surprise to see articles about joblessness and the decline of the auto industry…
