Womack and Jones video on spread – Blog – ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value From John Toussaint’s blog, this video starts with a question about (I’m paraphrasing) how do you balance continuous innovation (in how “Lean” works in a hospital)…
Womack on Lean Management, A Live Web Event We are running an experiment at the Lean Enterprise Institute. Jim Womack, founder and chairman of LEI, will be doing a two-hour live video presentation on October 13 at 11 am eastern.…
BBC World Service – Business – 5/05/2009 – Car Crash The BBC aired a revisiting of a story from 2007, I found this thanks to an alert on Twitter, a message from a guy named @KanuDawg said: Some guy named…
‘Most Indian managers don’t know what is possible’ Jim Womack was recently in India, as this article in the Business Standard publication. It’s kind of unfortunate for them that they abbreviate the publication’s name as “BS”…. such as their “BS…
Jim Womack’s E-letters – Respect for People Jim Womack’s most recent e-letter is one of the best I’ve read in quite a while. I think he really nails it, the compare and contrast of a Lean notion of “respect for…
IndustryWeek : Thought Leaders — Lean On Me (Full Transcript)IndustryWeek : Thought Leaders — Lean On Me (Print Version) Other blogs, including Gemba Panta Rei have already linked to this, but I’ll also post it with a few different highlights.…
Recently, I saw Jim Womack give two talks at the Global Lean Healthcare Summit. One was a talk that could have applied, about Lean in a general sense, to a manufacturing audience as well as a healthcare crowd. One point…
In this Lean Blog Podcast episode, Jim Womack reflects on GM, Ford, and Toyota through the lens of Lean thinking–past, present, and future. He explains how Lean was coined at MIT, why it became misunderstood, and what leaders still get…
In this 2007 interview, Jim Womack reflects on The Machine That Changed the World and how its lessons on Lean and Toyota’s system are still misunderstood. Episode #19 of the Lean Blog Podcast brings the return of Jim Womack. Jim…
LeanBlog Podcast #13 brings us part 2 of our discussion with James P. Womack of the Lean Enterprise Institute, the author of many books, including the classic (published 10 years ago) Lean Thinking and the more recent Lean Solutions. Part…
Update 12/17: Click here for part 2 of the Womack podcast. LeanBlog Podcast #12 brings us a special guest, James P. Womack of the Lean Enterprise Institute, the author of many books, including the classic (published 10 years ago) Lean…
By Luke Van Dongen I am a huge fan of Jim Womack’s ability to identify and describe problems within complex systems simply and absolutely. Womack was a keynote speaker at the conference and used his time to convey his understanding…