Mark’s Note: Today’s guest post is by Christina Kach, who I met via Twitter and email. I’m hoping this will be the first in a series of posts geared toward young Lean and continuous improvement professionals, but I think there…
Mark’s note: Today’s guest post by Bart Sellers is a timely contribution to follow up to yesterday’s post about the ThedaCare Business Performance System and the journal article about that great work. Bart has been a frequent commenter here on…
Mark’s Note: Today’s post is a second guest post from a new blogger, Chad Walters. His first post appeared last Friday. I was happy to be able to meet up with Chad to share some local Dallas BBQ while he…
Mark’s Note: Today’s post is a guest post from a new blogger, Chad Walters. Chad and I share a strong interest in sports — me as a fan and Chad as somebody who is working to bring Lean thinking to…
Mark’s Note: I’m posting this on behalf of a fellow MIT graduate because I thought you might be interested in his research and that at least one of my readers’ organizations might have the experience base required for participation (see…
A guest post from Steven J. Spear on this solemn day. You can also read it here. Friends, Ten years ago, I watched on television as a plane- stolen from the city in which I live-slammed into buildings in the…
Mark’s note: Today’s guest post is from Dr. Mark Jaben. I first met Mark in person at Cindy Jimmerson’s Lean Healthcare West conference in Montana last year. I’m happy to publish this new guest post to follow up his previous…
As Mark Graban stated in a recent post, “People fear or assume that a factory is…mindless, monotonous, repetitive…” These sentiments may come from observation of one aspect of lean and manufacturing: rules and related rewards. There is the common (mis-)perception…
TL;DR: Yokoten spreads learning horizontally so teams can go see, think, and build on ideas–not blindly copy them. Mark’s Note: Today’s post is from Al Norval, with the firm Lean Pathways, Inc. Yokoten Means Copy and Improve — Not Copy…
Inspired by Mark’s recent posting on More Trust, Less Fear and an upcoming conference panel that I’m a part of, I thought a continuation of the “soft skills” discussion would be timely. The first thing that comes to my mind…
Mark’s note: I’m happy to have a new guest blogger, Dr. Wiljeana Glover, from MIT, and a fellow member of the Society for Health Systems. The plan is that Wiljeana will be a regular guest blogger here. Greetings to the…
Mark’s Note: Today’s guest post is from Dan Feliciano (@DanFeliciano on Twitter), a lean six sigma professional and former candidate for Governor of Vermont. I recently attended the IQPC’s 12th Annual Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement Summit in Orlando.…
