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A few years ago, my wife and I went to a highly-regarded (and oft-recommended) restaurant in the Orlando area (our now former home). I ordered a brined, bone-in pork chop. When it came out, looking somewhat like the photo below,…
My guests for Episode #391 are Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck, the authors of books including Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, Implementing Lean Software Development, and The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions. In the episode, we’ll hear their…
Today is, of course, election day in the United States. Here is a post with some random thoughts. I was fortunate in that I was able to vote in person, early in Texas last month (that is my permanent home…
For Episode 22, Mark Graban is joined by Darril Wilburn and Sammy Obara, two former Toyota employees who are colleagues at the firm Honsha. They are two of the authors of the excellent book Toyota by Toyota. The three talk…
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this… Healthcare — Creating Value for Patients How Virginia Mason is using lessons learned from Covid-19 The proliferation of Electronic Health Records means more data is available to clinicians and administrators than ever…
tl;dr: RAG and bowling charts trigger overreaction and hide real system behavior. Process Behavior Charts reveal whether performance is truly changing, helping leaders focus on causes instead of colors and make better improvement decisions. In my book Measures of Success:…
My guest for Episode #390 is Keith Ingels, the TPS (Toyota Production System) Manager for Raymond Corporation — Raymond is part of Toyota Material Handling North America, which is part of Toyota Industries. Wait, so a Toyota company needs a…
The other day, I had an external hard drive completely fail. I lost the last 10 days’ worth of data. That wasn’t supposed to happen. I had protections and backups in place… yet something still went horribly wrong. If you…
In Episode 21, Mark and Jamie return to our regular casual format of open discussion over a drink, this time joined by Tom Ehrenfeld, well known to the Lean community for his writing and editorial work with the Lean Enterprise…
My guest for Episode #389 is Elisabeth Swan. She is the co-author of The Problem-Solver’s Toolkit and co-host of the Just-in-Time Cafe Podcast. As her bio says, she’s “been helping people successfully build their problem-solving muscles for over 30 years,…
Back in August, I handed over my blog to Deondra Wardelle for the week and that became the #RootCauseRacism series. I’m proud of how those blog posts (and webinar) turned out. I bought the domain name rootcauseracism.com and I told…
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this… Healthcare — Creating Value for Patients A nurse who was disciplined for using Facebook to criticize a health care system that cared for her grandfather has won an appeal after a 5-year…
