Tag: Deming

Guest Post: Lean Starts at Home

5
Mark's Note: Here's part 3 of a series by our guest blogger, Andy Wagner - a series that started here. Many of us work in...

Guest Post: Lean Lessons from the Non Profit World

4
Mark's note: I consider myself very fortunate to have met Patrick Anderson during my journeys in the Lean world. Patrick is the executive director...

LeanBlog Podcast #92 – Mike Micklewright, Another Crisis

1
Episode #92 brings a returning guest, the always entertaining and thought-provoking Mike Micklewright. He is the author of a batch of two new books:...

Dr. Brent James at the Shingo Conference, Part 2 – His...

13
Last week, I published Part 1 of my notes about a breakfast talk by Dr. Brent James at the Shingo Prize Conference. https://www.leanblog.org/2010/05/notes-from-dr-brent-james-at-the-shingo-prize-part-1/ One of the...

Notes from Dr. Brent James Teaching at the Shingo Prize Conference...

6
At last week's Shingo Prize conference, I was very excited to meet Dr. Stephen Covey (my podcast is here), but I was just as...

New Book Gives Negative Review to Performance Reviews

24
Hat tip to the WSJ for their review of the new book Get Rid of the Performance Review!: How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start...

Ships Passing in the Night – China Builds U.S. Factories

1
In an era where it was a "no brainer" to move factories to China, chasing cheap labor, the Lean world has often spoken out...

Guest Post: Deming, Lean, and Healthcare Transformation

1
Mark's note: I'm happy to welcome a relatively new friend,  Mike Stoecklein, as a guest author here on my Lean Blog. We have shared...

Read this Book – But Don’t Copy ThedaCare

6
Due out in June is a book that I think will be an important one for the Lean Healthcare movement. That book is about...

Liveblogging the Quaid Patient Safety Documentary

8
I'm blogging notes and thoughts as I watch the Discovery Channel documentary by actor Dennis Quaid and others --   "Chasing Zero: Winning the...

LeanBlog.org Site Problems

3
Dear readers - as you may have noticed, my site has been suffering from intermittent downtime, due to problems with the shared database server...

What Makes You Want to Do Better?

5
Recently, I was able to visit VIBCO, a Lean manufacturing company in Rhode Island. Company President Karl Wadensten is the host of "The Lean...
Join me for a Lean Healthcare Accelerator Trip to Japan!Learn More
+ +