Stuff I’m Reading March 2015: Womack, Sweatshops, Hospitals, and Surveys
As often happens, I have too many open browser tabs full of articles that I was going to potentially blog about.…
Upcoming Kaizen Workshop in Indianapolis (April)
I'm planning two different workshops in the coming months:
Boston (canceled): "Successful Lean Teams" -…
The Kaizen Approach to Getting Others Comfortable with Sushi
I'll be blogging a lot more about my recent trip to Japan with Kaizen Institute, including the site visits and our…
“Lean Coffee” for Healthcare in San Antonio, 9/24/14
I held the first "Lean Coffee" gathering for San Antonio healthcare folks in June and we're going to do another one…
A Whiteboard Accident Waiting to Happen – How to Error Proof?
Yesterday, Jim Benson and I were facilitating a "Lean for Knowledge Work" class at Geekdom in San Antonio and had a…
Preaching to the Choir: Lean Works Everywhere
Some of you might have seen it, but I wrote a piece for the LinkedIn Influencers series about how the "Lean…
Practicing What We Preach: Transparency and Kaizen
I'm part of the crowd that asks the following of healthcare organizations and leaders: be transparent and share…
Parody Video – Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together
Next class: Boston, May 20, 2015
I was thinking yesterday about the "Lean for Knowledge Work" seminars I'm doing…
Upcoming Conferences – SHS & LEI
I'm happy to be attending two really outstanding events in the next two months and I hope to see you there! The…
Before Asking Others to Do Kaizen, First Do Kaizen Yourself
Today, Joe Swartz and I are leading a workshop about "Healthcare Kaizen" in Farmington Hills.
A "core Kaizen…
Online Lean Healthcare Class through LEI, More Upcoming Kaizen Classes
In addition to the Healthcare Kaizen class that Joe Swartz and I are doing in Detroit on January 22 (with a 10%…
Workshop in Seattle, July 29: An Introduction to Lean for Knowledge Work
I'm happy to announce that I'm collaborating with Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry, fellow Shingo Research…
Podcast #268 – @TomEhrenfeld, on #Lean Books & #LeanStartup
My guest for Episode #268 is a long-time friend of mine in the Lean community and Lean Enterprise Institute…
Strategy Deployment as a Series of Hypotheses or Predictions (Part 2)
Here is the EXTREMELY belated Part 2 of my post, started in January 2015 with Part 1, on Strategy Deployment (SD)…
Report to President Obama Endorses Lean & Systems Engineering in Healthcare
I recently saw a tweet that referenced a May 2014 that was sent to President Obama and his administration: "Report…