DailyKaizen » What the patient is willing to pay for How about this for a circular (almost) network of blogs? I’m linking to a post on the excellent “Daily Kaizen” lean healthcare blog, which was referencing a post on the…
Tip of the hat to Jon Miller for finding this first. I have to chime in. I’m sure a lot of us have joked about it, a book called “Lean for Dummies.” Unfortunately, now it is here: Lean For Dummies.…
U.S. Mint goof creates ‘Godless dollars’ – Boston.com This isn’t a political blog, so the intent isn’t to debate if our U.S. currency *should* say “In God We Trust.” We’re here to debate the best way to make sure that,…
WSJ Article: Faltering Family M.D.s Get Technology Lifeline While I was skeptical of Intel’s planned tablet PC for nurses, I’m much more positive in my first reaction to this WSJ article about small (or single MD) physician practices using technology…
Mullet or not, Fields’ hair is talk of the auto industry Mullet-wearing Ford exec plans to keep it I know it’s juvenile of me to point out the Mark Fields hockey hair and I was good about not mentioning it…
Paul Pressler’s Fall From The Gap: Saw this in Business Week yesterday: “As part of the supply chain revamping, Pressler also tinkered with the way the Gap brand produced clothing samples. These prototypes had long been made at studios in…
I’m down with the flu (and stuck out of town in a hotel room after an attempted early trip home was canceled due to weather) and not much in a good thinking mode…. so thanks to illness-inspired laziness and the…
medinnovationblog: Systematic Innovation in U.S. Health Care: Toyota’s Lean Manufacturing Method and Its Application to Health Care A post here from the “medinnovationblog” site. The first one, linked above, gives a pretty good overview of applications of the Toyota Production…
Got a question yesterday from Eric Christiansen, my guest for episode #18 of the LeanBlog Podcast. He asked: Can a company be considered a lean company if it does not use some method of statistical process control? I toured a…
GM in early talks to buy Chrysler: source – Yahoo! News I’m reminded of hearing Tom Peters ask once: “What do you expect when one big, slow, dopey company merges with another big, slow, dopey, company??” That’s pretty much the…
SurvivalBlog.com Click on the link above if you, ahem, want to read about how “just in time” inventory is jeopardizing us all (warning: major paranoia alert). When I give lectures or do radio interviews, I’m often asked for proof when…
Toyota sweats U.S. labor costs Another article about the report that was taken from a Toyota computer, this time focused on Toyota’s concerns about rising labor costs. You might call this healthy level of desire for continuous improvement, always striving…
