Tag: Gemba

I was surprised that GEO CEO Larry Culp's opening remarks weren't shared in the YouTube recordings from the GE Lean Mindset event held in...

tl;dr: In this post, Mark discusses key takeaways from the GE Lean Mindset events, particularly focusing on the diversity of backgrounds among attendees. He...

Reposted from 2014... It's Valentine's Day. I'll be on a flight home from Boston later, hoping to see my wife at least a little...

My guest for Episode #464 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Katie Anderson, who is, among other things, the author of the book...

We're tired, but not tired of whisky. A gemba walk will pick us up... Listen: Here is the episode if you want to stream the audio: In...

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #459 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is my colleague, Gerald Harris,...

Hi. I'm Mark. If you read this blog, you might already know me. I'm going to tell a story today that's illustrated with Apple...

A few years ago, my wife and I went to a highly-regarded (and oft-recommended) restaurant in the Orlando area (our now former home). I...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients It's been 20 years since To Err is Human, the seminal report from the Institute of Medicine, was released, estimating,...

Mark's Note: Today's post is written by Ken Segel, the managing director of Value Capture, LLC. This is the first of what I hope...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been quoted as saying he will "school Toyota on Lean manufacturing." OK, let's take inspiration and lessons from the apparent Tesla Way management system. What would happen if hospitals and other organizations tried emulating Tesla instead of Toyota? What are the methods and mindsets? The behaviors and principles? What's the management approach and culture?

As you might know, I have always enjoyed baseball and like blogging about ideas and statistics that come from the sport. I loved this recent article from The Wall Street Journal and there are parallels to Lean and being an effective change agent: "The Data Wonk Who Became a Coach"