Tag: GE
Lean & the “Work-Out” Process in Healthcare – Success, My Questions,...
In the past few years, I've heard of the "Work-Out" process that has origins at GE. This consultant's website gives a good overview and...
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...
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 Time" component). The...
30 Rock: Jack Donaghy is a “Six Sigma Black Belt Ultra”...
Absolutely hilarious... last Thursday's "30 Rock" features Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) talking about how he's a:
"Six Sigma Black Belt Ultra... with the groin branding...
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 York Times...
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 Friday: "Toyota techniques drive profit,...
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 Americas. Before joining GE, he was most...
Of 777s and Heart Rate Monitors
In recent years, healthcare has been learning a lot of lessons from aviation -- including checklists and "Crew Resource Management," as written about in...
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" appearance on the...
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 (and friend of mine) for sending...
"If you didn’t do it in Six Sigma, then it didn’t...
Guest Columnist - Quality DigestWow, this is pretty bad... allegedly about GE. Granted, any dysfunctional Lean company could end up with similar dynamics. So...
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 stream? Is it just a buzzword?...
