Interviewed by Mike Wall on Lean Healthcare
Thanks to Mike Wall, the host of the “Radio Lean” online program for interviewing me on Lean Healthcare. You can find streaming audio here or directly download an MP3 file.
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Jim Morgan of Ford on Lean Product Development and Leading by Asking
Episode #109 is a discussion with Jim Morgan, Director, Global Body Exterior and Stamping Business Unit Engineering, Ford Motor Company. We will be talking about Lean product development methods in this show. James will be a plenary speaker at the…
Why Nurses Should Reject “LAME” and Demand Lean
There’s a long-standing argument that I’ve been dragged into with a group that calls itself “new systems thinkers.” They loudly criticize Lean as being altogether awful (with the alternative, predictably, being their services). One of them wrote a blog post…
Is This Woman Set Up to Fail?
There are lots of places online where people can ask questions about Lean, such as the LEI forums and numerous LinkedIn groups. I saw one question in a LinkedIn group that really gave me pause… I won’t use her name…
How I Broke My Blog and Fixed It… Lessons Learned
For those of you who have had difficulty accessing LeanBlog.org for the past two weeks or so, I apologize. It’s been frustrating to me and I’ve gotten a number of emails from people who couldn’t get the site to load.…
David Meier on Toyota’s 2010 Quality Crisis: Facts, Bias & Lean Lessons
Episode #85 is a conversation with David Meier, a former Toyota Georgetown Group Leader and the co-author of the books The Toyota Way Fieldbook and Toyota Talent: Developing Your People the Toyota Way. With Toyota facing widespread attention during the 2010…
Familiar Voices and New Voices on Lean
You heard enough from me yesterday… today I want to share some other voices with you and their thoughts on Lean. First, familiar voices (John Shook and Jeff Liker) and someone who might seem like a new voice in the…
Ten (Mostly) Common Misconceptions About Toyota & Lean
Ten Common Misconceptions About Toyota | Quality Digest I found this interesting column from Quality Digest, by Stewart Anderson, a guy who says he has first hand experience with Toyota people and suppliers. The website bio page requires registration to…
Observations from One End of the Hospital
Lean Leap to Health Care #7 (click for Part #6) by Scott McDuffee “Where is the main entrance? Why do I follow the signs to HERE? Now you are telling me to go all the way down THERE! How far…
Full List of Shingo Prize for Research Winners Announced
Award Recipients – The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence – shingoprize.org The full list of winners has been released. Congratulations to all! It’s personally quite an honor to be included in this list. Steven J. Spear: Chasing the Rabbit: How…
Toyota’s Commitment to People
Toyota’s plunge into big pickups veers into a Texas-size ravine – USATODAY.com I’ve already written about this before, but there was a new article in USA Today about Toyota’s commitment to its workers in San Antonio, even during a slow…
LeanBlog Podcast #50 – Your Guest, Mark Graban – Celebrating 50 Episodes with Jamie Flinchbaugh
To celebrate the 50th LeanBlog Podcast, the tables are turned. Guest host Jamie Flinchbaugh chats with me, Mark Graban, about the history of my blog, my podcasts, and how this led into my new book, Lean Hospitals. This was Jamie’s…