Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: March 4, 2022
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing…
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Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 14, 2020
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
"We have a good people in a bad system". Here's an …
Operational Excellence Mixtape: December 20, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
It's been 20 years since To Err is Human, the seminal…
GE’s CEO Larry Culp Goes to the Gemba, Looks to Understand the Real Reality
Here's an article from Bloomberg BusinessWeek:
GE's Larry Culp Faces Ultimate CEO Test in Trying to Save a…
Episode #2 of the “Lean Whiskey” Podcast on GE, Boeing, and More
Mark and Jamie
Jamie Flinchbaugh and I got a great response to the first episode of our new "Lean Whiskey"…
Would Today’s General Electric Recognize the Ideas in their Old “Blue…
Mark's note: It's been a long time since Andy Wagner contributed a post to the blog, but we've remained friends…
GE Gets a Lean CEO — From the Outside
Jet lag, even well managed and planned for, meant I was awake early on a Sunday morning. Over breakfast, I read…
Key Tweets from @MarkGraban – Week of November 23, 2015: Starbuck Drips, GE…
Here's the latest installment of "Key Tweets," a weekly post that summarizes some of my tweets (or retweets) from…
Podcast #229 – John Dyer, Reflections on Deming, Six Sigma, and More
My guest for episode #229 is John Dyer, president of his consulting firm, JD&A, Inc., and a contributor…
Throwback Thursday: Dr. Deming’s Last Interview & Jack Welch’s…
To the left is a young baby me. I don't think I was thinking about Dr. Deming as a baby, but thankfully my parents…
Random Super Bowl XLIX Lean-Like Moments – Katy Perry and GE
Following up my earlier post about the "Patriot Way..."
During her halftime extravaganza (video), Katy Perry had…
TV Ad for GE Capital Features a Lean Turnaround for a Factory
Thanks to my friend and former Toyota employee Karthik Chandramouli for noticing this commercial on TV.
In the…
Notes from Day 1 of the #LeanStartup Conference 2013
It was an amazing first day of the Lean Startup conference yesterday in San Francisco. Videos will be available…
Parallels and Learning Between Aircraft Engine MRO and Human Healthcare
My wife is a leader in a business (not GE) that does aircraft engine "MRO" work - maintenance, repair, and…
Lean & the “Work-Out” Process in Healthcare – Success, My…
In the past few years, I've heard of the "Work-Out" process that has origins at GE. This consultant's website gives…
Weekend Fun: 30 Rock Mocks GE’s Manufacturing Reshoring
One of the things I love about the NBC show "30 Rock" is the way is skewers GE culture (such as its past mocking of…
Fox News Channel Understands “Lean” Better than the WSJ
On Friday, there was yet another Wall Street Journal article about Lean (fixating as they always do on the "Just In…
30 Rock: Jack Donaghy is a “Six Sigma Black Belt Ultra” – And He…
Absolutely hilarious... last Thursday's "30 Rock" features Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) talking about how he's…