Tag: Guest

Guest Post: Some Tips & Advice for Young Change Agents

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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...

Guest Post: Is your management system the constraint in Kaizen?

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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...

Guest Post: Talking Lean at the Baseball Winter Meetings

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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...

Guest Post: Finding Waste at the Stadium

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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 --...

Guest Post: Searching for Participants in PhD Lean Research

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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...

Guest Post: Bin Laden Lost

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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...

Guest Post: The Chain of Improvement

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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...

Guest Post: Misuse of Rules and Rewards

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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...

Guest Post: What is “Yokoten?”

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Mark's Note: Today's post is from Al Norval, with the firm Lean Pathways, Inc. In the Lean world, we hear all kinds of Japanese...

Guest Post: “Soft Skills”: From Spongy to Solid

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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...

Guest Post: From Ad-Hoc to Systematic Change: A Framework for Kaizen...

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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...

Guest Post: Continuous Improvement’s Continuous Mistakes

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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...