All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
Patient Safety Blog – Telling Our Stories Here is an unfortunate story about a surgeon operating on the wrong side of an 86 year-old man, who died sooner after. There’s no clear cause-and-effect between that error and death: The surgeon…
Listen: LeanBlog Podcast #31 is a discussion with David Meier, most recently the co-author of the book Toyota Talent, written with Dr. Jeffrey Liker. In this podcast, we discuss the topics from Toyota Talent, including standardized work and how to…
Can Michael Dell Refocus His Namesake? – New York Times The Toyota Way philosophy preaches a focus on the long term business objectives or as stated in the book (and summarized on wikipedia): “Base your management decisions on a long-term…
Autoblog.com report This is surprising — Toyota’s top U.S. executive, Jim Press, who had been the first American named as a Toyota corporate director, is leaving to take a top sales and marketing job at Chrysler. Does this mean Tom…
USA Today – Lantech has success all wrapped up It’s a brief mention, but a positive mention of Lean in the USA Today Money section this week. Lantech, a Kentucky company, has had some amazing growth and they credited Lean…
Flightblogger: Temporary Fasteners Causing Major Problems for 787 Program Ok, so Boeing isn’t using duct tape in their efforts to cobble together the first Dreamliner plane. But, this blog report I’ve linked to says they were using: “… over-the-counter parts…
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, co-author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean Decades of knowledge in lean have been passed on, written down, turned into curriculums and even documented in the annual reports of some companies. But why do so many fail…
FTD.de – Business English – Business English – I’ve found the worst employee handbook ever The title of this post comes with apologies to Comic Book Guy. This post isn’t about Lean or even about manufacturing, but as much as…
Medical treatment takes ‘lean’ tack Here’s a great Lean healthcare overview, a news story that appeared in the Chicago Tribune last month about a hospital in Illinois (the above link). Lots of great data and examples in there about the…
By Bryan Lund, guest contributor to the Lean Blog: I posted the following question on LinkedIn.com as Mark noted in a previous blog entry: “How important is the past in learning about how to handle the future? Specifically…I think that…
Monday is Labor Day, a holiday in the United States. Since one of the main pillars of the Toyota Production System is “respect for people,” let’s revisit previous Lean Blog posts that focus on that concept (click on the “Respect…
Here is another look at the “lean obstacles” survey questions, again breaking it down by some key demographic factors (more details here). Looking first at the split between Private and Public companies, there don’t appear to be any major disparities…
