Tag: Andon

Celebration of Errors From Aerospace to Tech Companies: The Lean Journey...

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #489 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Ward Vuillemot, a seasoned...

Lessons in Problem-Solving: How We Fixed Broken Blog Comments on Lean...

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Long story short: Things were broken on my blog where readers couldn't comment. That's now fixed. But I'll share the story of my problem...

3 Instances in 1 Day: Problems, Mistakes, and Countermeasures (Short-Term and...

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I don't blog about every mistake I make (although it might seem otherwise, sometimes). I do try to share stories that might help illustrate...

Keith Champion on the Lucid (Motors) Production System

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Scroll down for info, videos about Lucid Motors, how to subscribe, and more My guest for Episode #410 of the Lean Blog Interviews podcast is...

Episode #10 of the “Lean Whiskey” Podcast: The Grinch Stole our...

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In Episode 10 of Lean Whiskey, Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh do their best to work through technology issues, as the Grinch clearly didn't...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 25, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients If you set a target without providing a clear path on how you want it achieved, and then punish staff when they fail...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 11, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Transformation and quality improvement is rarely sustained without changing management behaviours and management systems. John Toussaint writes about the challenges...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 27, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Globally, at least 5 patients die every minute due to unsafe care.  For Patient Safety Week, the World Health Organization...

How Checklists and the “Andon Cord” Concept Can Help With Webinars

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For years, Dr. Greg Jacobson and I have used checklists when prepping for and running our various webinars via KaiNexus. You can join us...

Leaders & Lean: We Need to Better Support Doctors and Other...

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When surgeons have no better options than complaining about process problems on LinkedIn, are their leaders and organizations really properly supporting them? In this post, we'll explore questions of blame, accountability, and engaging people in process improvement... being of better service to them.

The Academy Awards Add an Inspector, Practice “Andon Cord Pulls,” Avoid...

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Tomorrow, my post will be about headlines that scream about ratings for The Oscars being "down from last year" or "the lowest in X years." As I've blogged about before, I'm always skeptical of such simplistic comparisons that might mask the real underlying trend. But first, could the Academy avoid last year's embarrassing mixup?

What We’re Looking Forward to Learning at the Toyota Plant Tour

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Tomorrow, with the entire KaiNexus team, I'm going to visit the Toyota truck plant in San Antonio, the plant referred TMMTX. The 15 of us will be there in closed toed shoes and all other required clothing to learn about the Toyota Production System, Kaizen (continuous improvement), and Lean. I've blogged about it on the KaiNexus blog. I asked the KaiNexus team to say a little bit about what they hope to learn in the visit and you can read their comments it here. In this post, I share a 24-minute tour preview webinar that I put together, links to past tour blog posts, and more.