Battle Creek Enquirer – www.battlecreekenquirer.com Here is an outstanding profile of Gary Convis, the President of the Toyota Georgetown (KY) plant and the highest-ranking American executive in the company. I’ve written about Convis before and have seen him speak at…
No, this isn’t a 5S discussion. Every once in a while, I peek at the blog servers stats to see what people search for (on Google, for example) before getting here to the blog. This is just a sample that…
The CNBC reporter is now saying that Ford will be “smaller and nimbler.” Smaller yes, but more nimble? That remains to be seen. But, I’d argue that companies in this shrinking cycle (and Ford has already been in this job-cutting…
USATODAY.com – Your health You have to scroll down to see this on USA Today’s site, so here’s the whole article with my commentary. The idea of taking a water gun into your hospital room with you seems funny, if…
I’m often challenged by people (including my wife sometimes), “why don’t you apply lean concepts at home, Mr. Lean?” I haven’t shadowed my kitchen items (that would look bad), but I do apply some general 5S concepts, including keeping most…
Serious errors by doctor, nurse reported at St. Mary’s Medical Center This kind of article is published far too often, but this statistic is alarming: “Doctors operating on the wrong body part have been a rare but persistent problem. In…
MercuryNews.com | 11/02/2005 | Medical mistake may have killed man It is really sad when errors like this occur, it happens far too often in our hospitals. The newspaper headline used the non-blaming “medical mistake”, while I would prefer to…
Something still doesn’t seem right, after thinking about it more in a cab ride, about the Dell quality numbers and the cost to repair these motherboards (see first article below). The Dell spokesman claims, in the Business Week article, that…
Fixing Healthcare From The Inside, Today Available through HBS… this is written by Steven J. Spear, a former Harvard professor who has written about Toyota quite a bit. He has since left and joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, focusing…
7Online.com: Investigation on After Surgical Error A scary example of the type of medical mistake that happens far too often. I hope that “augmenting their procedures” includes standard work and poka-yoke (error proofing) steps. Sad, sad case. Please check out…
This post comes from Mark Edmondson, President of LEAN Affiliates. Our team periodically visits a new client site that has a lean initiative in place. In these situations, we’re trained to rapidly assess the status of their efforts. Recently, after…
KING5.com News for Seattle, Washington KING5 HealthLink A scary example of how a lack of 5S can literally kill. “ The mother of four had gone in for a procedure on a brain aneurysm. But afterward, instead of injecting her…
