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…
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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…
G.E. Rediscovers the Value in Providing Real Value to Manufacturing Customers
I'll apologize if today's post seems off-topic to my healthcare readers, but I have to share a link to a Sunday New…
Tampa Bay Business Journal Features Lean at Moffitt Cancer Center
The full article requires a subscription, but John Toussaint and I were each quoted in this article from last…
My Interview with Justin Holland, of GE Healthcare
Today's post is an interview I conducted via email with Justin Holland, Managing Principal of GE Healthcare…
Of 777s and Heart Rate Monitors
In recent years, healthcare has been learning a lot of lessons from aviation -- including checklists and "Crew…
Saturday Fun: 30 Rock’s 6 Principles of 6 Sigma
My blog has gotten a lot of traffic since Thursday as people search for "30 rock jack welch" after his "acting"…
Hey, Reuters, Six Sigma Did Not Start at Toyota!
ANALYSIS - Six Sigma mystique takes beating in downturn | Motoring | Reuters
Thanks to a former Toyota employee…
"If you didn’t do it in Six Sigma, then it didn’t happen."
Guest Columnist - Quality DigestWow, this is pretty bad... allegedly about GE. Granted, any dysfunctional Lean…
The Value Stream of Succession Planning and Leader Development
by Jamie Flinchbaugh, co-author, The Hitchhiker's Guide to LeanWhat's the purpose of thinking about work as a value…
GE’s CIO and Lean Results
GE's CEO controls information worth billions - July 21, 2008It's always interesting to read about GE's shift from a…
Signs of The Lean Buzzword Spreading?
Networks Plot Course - WSJ.com
As the entertainment industry works to recover from the recently-ended writers'…
Six Sigma In the Newsroom
Technology Review: "You Don't Understand Our Audience"
It's just one part of a very interesting article in the…
Comments from GE’s CEO
An interview with P&G and GE CEOs Lafley and Immelt - December 11, 2006:I saw this yesterday and it jumped out…
More Praise for Jack Welch on “30 Rock” – Mind Grapes
From NBC's "30 Rock", a very funny show, again we get more unbridled praise for GE CEO Jack Welch:
Jack Donaghy…
“30 Rock” on Jack Welch and Six Sigma, Praise from Jack Donaghy
We know Dilbert makes fun of Six Sigma, but the new NBC show "30 Rock" does a great job of skewering GE culture…