Mark’s note: What follows is a guest post by Keivan Zokaei about the necessary and unsurprisingly overlap between Lean principles and environmental stewardship. I wrote about this dynamic in a 2010 blog post: “Lean Leads to Green, Which Supports Lean,”…
Mark’s Note: Today’s post is by a regular guest contributor, Christina Kach. I was disappointed that I couldn’t attend this year’s event in Massachusetts, but I was happy that Christina put together this summary. Last week I had the…
Mark’s Note: Today’s post is by a colleague from The Netherlands, Erwin Haas. Erwin is a leader in a Dutch consulting firm, NextChange, a formal partner of KaiNexus. I am the chief improvement officer at KaiNexus. By Erwin Haas A…
Mark’s note: Today’s guest post is by Gert Linthout, from Belgium. Gert and I were part of the same Lean healthcare study trip to Japan last November. He was the co-creator of this creative video on Kaizen that I featured…
Mark’s note: Today’s post is by a good friend in the lean healthcare world, Mark Welch (no relation to Jack). Today’s post is thought-provoking in terms of finding the balance between efficiency and building relationships in today’s workplace. He also…
“And the mystery basket ingredients are…” That single phrase, expressed weekly on “Chopped” from Food Network, gets millions of viewers in America to stop what they are doing and stare at the TV in anticipation. As soon as host Ted…
Mark’s note — today’s guest post is by my friend Karen Martin, my guest for Podcast #151 where we talked about her latest book The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence. Karen…
Today’s guest post is by author Natalie Sayer, who was my guest for Podcast #145. While doing research for another project, I had the opportunity to watch the move Happy, a documentary looking at the science of happiness around…
Today’s post is by Brian Collyer, blogger at Today’s Lean Manufacturing. Brian interviewed me recently for his podcast. Gemba: the Japanese term meaning “the real place” Gemba is the place in any organization where humans create value. In the…
Today’s guest post is by Natalie Sayer, who was my guest for Podcast #145. Most of the literature I read about “respect for people” has an inference that it is uni-directional or bidirectional, tied to the organizational hierarchy. I…
Mark’s note: Thanks to all of the wonderful guest bloggers who contributed to this space over the past two weeks. Today’s post is by Richard Steel, the COO of Kaizen Institute New Zealand and Mijo Katavic, lean & innovation manager…
Mark’s note: I’m back from vacation, but I have a few more great guest posts today and tomorrow as I get back into working mode. I’ll be back on Monday. Liz Guthridge is a returning guest blogger — “The Lean…
