New York Times Article Here’s a recent article on Toyota’s globalization — how to grow and spread The Toyota Way quickly, yet effectively as they expand around the world. “It’s extremely important to have the same common Toyota Way infiltrated…
Lean Enterprise Academy > The First Global Lean Healthcare Summit – 2007 I’m very fortunate to be attending this conference, sponsored and run by Dan Jones, of Lean Thinking and Lean Solutions fame. Are any of my readers also attending?…
The Capital Times Follow up to this original story: Thao was initially charged in the case with a felony count of causing great bodily harm to a patient by negligence, a charge which came after an investigation by the State…
WSJ.com – Requires Subscription As Toyota grows, they are struggling with finding/keeping enough people who truly understand TPS tools and the Toyota Way. I’ll try to find a “free” version of this article but here are a few highlights (trust…
Interesting story about a Fortune 500 company who is starting up a factory in China: Apparently, they are having trouble getting tools, so employees from an American factory went to Sears to buy Craftsman tools to send to the China…
Business – International Herald Tribune Interesting article on how small mom-and-pop startups are using China’s manufacturing capabilities to get off the ground. Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you are reading is copyrighted…
The Globe and Mail:: This is a pretty good overview, “state of Toyota” article. The article discusses how TPS is about more than just reducing waste and cutting costs. “Everybody” now does just-in-time delivery, but there’s obviously more to TPS…
I’m currently reading a fascinating and eye opening book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman, of the New York Times. Friedman has written numerous books on globalization and the Middle East,…
A nurse on a telemetry floor had two orders to carry out. Forty milligrams of Lasix, to be given via IV. Two units of insulin lispro, given subcutaneously. At that hospital, every dose of insulin required a second nurse to…
At Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, a nurse named Candice Bena decided a 76-year-old patient needed a new intravenous line. Radiology couldn’t install it right away. She was worried about infection, so she called Richard Shannon, who was chairman of…
I’ve been rereading Takehiko Harada’s book Management Lessons from Taiichi Ohno. Harada joined Toyota Motor Corporation in 1968 and spent about four decades there, including time as project general manager of the Operations Management Consulting Division, the group Toyota used…
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