Tag: 5S

Family Guy Skewers Marie Kondo (and 5S and Lean too?)

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I haven't read it, but Marie Kondo's book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing has been a...

Our Condo Maintenance Guy Gets the Point of 5S and Maximizing...

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I got onto the elevator in the lobby of our condo building one day last week. Our building's maintenance guy was already on there...

Toyota Helps a Young Inventor; Look at His Dad’s Toyota Desk

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it's great to see an 11 year old thinking like an engineer and an entrepreneur. He's the son of a Toyota "operational excellence" consultant. For those who try to unfortunately equate Lean to a "clean desk policy," the father's desk is a great argument against banning family photos and an illustration of why Lean isn't about putting tape around everything...

[Updated] Texas Rangers’ 3B Adrian Beltre Ejected for 5S or Standardized...

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Update: See the end of the post with some photos I took at the game yesterday where Beltre got his 3000th career hit -...

Is This a 5S Problem or a Broader Healthcare Leadership and...

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A few of you sent me this sad article from the Wall St. Journal:  "'People Are Dying Here': Federal Hospitals Fail Tribes."  I feel like I've some variation of this article and exposé many times over. Sometimes, it's some form of government medicine (active duty military medicine, the VA, or another country) or it's a similar sad story from the private healthcare sector (be it non-profit or for-profit).

Easier, Better, Faster, Cheaper… What’s Missing There?

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What if "easier" is less safe? Great question. It begs the question of why Safer isn't first in Shingo's list? Is it because safety is assumed to be such a fundamental pre-condition in the Toyota culture or the Lean approach? Safety is such a non-negotiable point that it doesn't need to be said?

Contest: Win a Set of Lean & Patient Safety Books Plus...

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StoreSMART, a Rochester, New York-based manufacturer and retailer, has been an advertiser on this blog for over six months now. I also very much appreciate that they are trying to learn how to better serve those who are practicing Lean...

How Lean Thinkers Shop? Plus the Lean Blog Holiday Gift Guide...

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I'm guessing most "Lean thinkers" stayed home the other day on the "Black Friday" shopping day. Why might this be? For one, I think we tend...

Visiting the Gemba & Seeing a Growing Culture of Continuous Improvement...

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Recently, I wrote about an on-site event that I helped the Iowa Lean Consortium and Mary Greeley Medical Center (MGMC) organize... here is my first...

The City of Denton’s Lean Journey & Upcoming Webinar

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I've gotten to know to know Harry Kenworthy (pictured at left) over the past few years after meeting at a conference (the Northeast L.E.A.N....

Information Deficits, Visual Indicators, Error Proofing, and Payment Terminals

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Gwendolyn Galsworth is a leading thinker and author on Lean and various aspects of "visuality." One thing she talks about in the workplace is "information deficits."

Why It’s OK That This Suggestion Box Was Full of Cobwebs

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As a guy who started his career in manufacturing before moving to healthcare in 2005, I don't get many opportunities to visit the "Gemba"...