LeanBlog Review: Toyota Talent
Toyota Talent is the third, and newest, book in the “Toyota Way” series: In this trilogy of books, each is very different and has its own unique place in the Lean literature. These books are unlike a series of novels,…
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Medicare to Stop Paying for Rework
Hospital-borne ailments face Medicare budget ax | IndyStar.com Healthcare has LONG been a piecework industry. Caregivers and facilities are paid for WHAT they do and the services they provide. Doing more work gets you paid more, much the same way…
Lean Blog and Long Term Thinking
Principle #1 of the Toyota Way says: Base your management decisions on a long-term philosophy, even at the expense of short-term financial goals. Back on April 14, I transitioned the Lean Blog from the old address of kanban.blogspot.com to my…
Updated: Wal-Mart and Dell New Bed-Fellows?
Dell, in Shift, Will Offer PCs at Wal-Mart – New York Times I recently wrote about Dell’s move away from strict adherence to the direct selling model (and Mark Spearman talked about the idea and how Dell shot him down…
Lean for Small Businesses in Rockford IL
Rockford Register Star | Web site of the Rock River Valley Here’s a small case study from Rockford IL: For Leading Edge, a 120-employee shop that fabricates hydraulic tubing, the same Lean methods have increased efficiency, shortened response times and…
Visual Management Contest Winner
I’m happy to announce a winner in the LeanBlog Contest that was sponsored by American LED-gible, Inc (www.ledgible.com). I had three outstanding entries, so it was a tough decision, but the winner is Andrea, who submitted an example from a…
Visual Control for Beer
Coors New Cold Activated Bottle Campaign uses Chromazoneâ„¢ Chill ‘n’ Reveal Ink Mmmmmm…..beer. I’m not sure if this was really necessary, but here’s a good one for 5 PM Friday. Just saw a TV for a gimmicky Coors Light bottle…
The "Leaders Production System"??
Random thought for the week: You always hear “we’re not Toyota, we don’t build cars, etc. etc.” in context of making excuses for not implementing Lean, since: Lean comes from Toyota (which earlier inspiration from Ford, TWI, etc.) It’s obviously…
The Need for Lean Healthcare: ER
Portrait of an ER at the Breaking Point – Newsweek Health Here is an incredibly sad case study of an Emergency Room that’s a mess… as well as the hospital it is attached to. It’s overly simplistic to say “the…
Standard Work for Ice Cream
No, not for home consumption, but I ended up with a 3 gallon tub of ice cream (used for a Lean batching vs single-piece flow demonstration in a work setting). I was a bit surprised to see such specific “standard…
Is There "Standard Work" for Clinical Care?
Marketplace: Better health care through better information This commentator points out some shocking waste in the healthcare system: Although cancer doctors work long hours, they still fail, frequently, to provide therapies the medical evidence says the patient needs. Sometimes the…
Error Proofing Email Attachments
Dan Evans’ VBA Scripts – Outlook Attachment Checker etc LifeHacker Post Have you ever composed an email, meaning to attach a file, even saying something like “see the attached file…” and then you forget to actually attach the file? I…
