Tag: Japan

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...

I'm on my way home from Japan as this post gets published. I will probably take the week off from blogging for the Thanksgiving...

Yesterday, our tour group had a chance to visit an outstanding factory. They manufacture gas meters and they do everything from casting aluminum, creating...

Yesterday, our Lean Healthcare tour of Japan (with Kaizen Institute) took us to our second hospital, this time in Tokyo. The CEO, Shuhei Iida,...

Our Kaizen Institute guide, Brad Schmidt (pictured above) talked to us on Monday about standardized work. He said, of the practice at Toyota, that...

Yesterday, I was able to visit Toyota City as part of the Kaizen Institute tour I am a part of. Now, we weren't able...

I know many of you aren't into the whole Twitter thing, but I'm using my account (@MarkGraban) to share some photos and small batches...

I had previously blogged about this Lean healthcare study trip to Japan, but I'm really excited that it's coming up soon! I depart in...

Last week, I had a chance to see one of the "Deming Library" videos (on loan to me by Claire Crawford-Mason and ManagementWisdom.com). BTW,...

I first  blogged about the possibility in March - doing a weeklong study trip to Japan with Lean Healthcare professionals, in partnership with Kaizen...

Hat tip to Mike S. for pointing out this HBR article "Why "I'm Sorry" Doesn't Always Translate." The piece talks about the differences in cultural...

This is all somewhat preliminary, but I've been talking to the folks at the Kaizen Institute  about helping organize a study trip to Japan,...