California week on the blog continues after yesterday’s post about Lean at San Francisco General Hospital. Today, I’m flying to Los Angeles to attend the 5th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. I will be, as usual, moderating the CEO panel…
Here’s a video produced about some work that Toyota’s TSSC did for a New York City food bank, applying Toyota Production System principles to help provide more food to those in need after “Superstorm Sandy.” The video demonstrates how creative…
Here’s a nice story about the Toyota Supplier Support Center helping a charitable organization with their holiday operations: “Toyota applies production know-how to roll out holiday help for needy.” That link is broken, but this blog post talks about the…
If you’ve searched for “Lean methodology,” you’ve probably seen definitions about waste reduction or efficiency. That’s part of it — but Lean is much more than that. It’s a leadership system for building better organizations. I’ve been studying and practicing…
CURRENTS / ‘Toyota way’ inspires lean practices From a Japanese newspaper, an article about the impact the Toyota Production System is having on organizations around the world. The first example is the U.S. military, the Air Force more specifically: Since…
I’m currently reading a fascinating and eye opening book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman, of the New York Times. Friedman has written numerous books on globalization and the Middle East,…