Tag: Gemba

Corner Office - Bad News or Good, Continental's Chief Wants to Know - Question - NYTimes.comThis interview with Larry Keller, CEO of Continental Airlines,...

Afternoon post planned for today -- initial reflections on my reader survey. Thanks to those of you who gave your feedback. Come back or...

Mark's note: Jim's post originally started as a comment in response to my post "Where Did I Start with Lean?" but it exceeded the...

I have always learned a lot from John Shook. As I've blogged about before, I've seen John present about TPS and management (leadership, really)...

A Carmaker As A Model For A Hospital? - CBS News Virginia Mason Medical Center and their use of Lean and TPS was featured on...

Lean Leap to Health Care #9 (Click for Part #8) by Scott McDuffee "I'm not sure if I have ever learned anything with my mouth open....

Back in February, I did a parody of a "Goofus and Gallant" cartoon, if you remember them from "Highlights for Kids" magazine that was...

Airbus Aims to Pull Back Without Stalling - WSJ.com:This recent article about Airbus talks about facing a challenge of declining airplane orders.Airbus said Friday...

Curious at Amazon, but Not Idle - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com This piece about Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos made me think about visiting the "Gemba"...

Taking the Wheel as Toyota Skids - NYTimes.comToyota's Cost Cutting Plan to Include Buyouts for Factory WorkersToyota famously has avoided layoffs of permanent employees...

I get sort of tired of seeing questions like this on the internet (on the Yahoo Group for Healthcare Management Engineers):Just wondering if anyone...

Recently, I blogged about management practices at the midwest retail chain Meijer. It was a sad (and not uncommon) story of quotas and threats...