I was going back through my notes from the First Global Lean Healthcare Summit and thankful for the many wonderful thoughts and tidbits that I learned or re-learned. One was a nice way of summarizing the different forms of a…
Presentation Link from TWI Summit Thanks to Blog reader Jeff for sending this along. Jeff sends glowing reports about the first ever TWI Summit that he was able to attend recently. The Shook presentation material is outstanding. I had a…
What are your thoughts? I wrote last week about my thoughts and hopes for the movie “SiCKO”. I’ve actually seen the film now. I won’t go into the details of how I managed to see it without any money flowing…
There were a couple of articles in the WSJ this past week that, in an indirect way, talk about the value of being at the “gemba” as a manager (gemba is a Japanese word that means “the actual place” where…
I’ve been asked a few times by blog readers about the movie “Sicko” since I work in the healthcare world. It opens tomorrow in the U.S. I haven’t paid for a Michael Moore movie since “Roger and Me,” a movie…
By Mike Lopez I’ve written about the four rules of Lean before. I have been thinking about how they apply to marriage. To refresh those of you who have not read the Harvard Business Review article by Steve Spear and…
Hello from the Global Lean Healthcare Summit in Warwickshire, England. It is amazing how truly global this movement is, as tonight I met or saw name badges of people from the US, Canada, UK, Italy, Denmark, South Africa, Germany, Netherlands,…
Dear blog readers — I’m going to be on the road through Wednesday June 27, not sure about internet access or time to post. As I mentioned, I’ll be attending the Global Lean Healthcare Summit in the UK. I know…
Report: Toyota May Slow US Plant Builds: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance WSJ article: REDUCED SPEED Toyota’s New U.S. Plan: Stop Building Factories Toyota is concerned about overexpansion and overcapacity in the U.S., apparently. In Japan, most of Toyota’s factories…
For UAW Chief, a Bid To Forestall ‘Waterloo’ – WSJ.com The UAW leader for the U.S., Ron Gettelfinger was featured in today’s Wall Street Journal. He pretty much spoke the company line on the usual excuses for why the Detroit…
GM teaches writers to build it right each time Updated: GM *does* do some kaizen in the class What we call Lean or TPS, they call “GMS”: General Motors Corp. touts its global manufacturing system as the reason it’s been…
Sometimes these stories come across the wire in batches, there’s a flurry of positive Lean news this week: Pierce ablaze with orders Here’ s a story about “lean fire trucks” (and a horrible pun in the newspaper’s headline there, don’t…
