Tag: Kaizen

A question came in from a blog reader -- simple question with no simple or easy answers: Who are the Lean Thinking CEOs? My first thought...

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By Mark Graban:I'm always fascinated by Starbucks. For one, I'm a regular customer and Starbucks has a reputation for hiring pretty educated people as...

I have always learned a lot from John Shook. As I've blogged about before, I've seen John present about TPS and management (leadership, really)...

Toyota Names Akio Toyoda President, Apologizes to Shareholders for Losses This was rumored for a while, but Toyota has formally named Akio Toyoda as the...

Toyota Is Tightening Its Belt - NYTimes.comThe words don't appear directly in the article, but the RSS blurb for this article (repeated in many...

I found a few articles lately about Lean being implemented in some Ohio hospitals, so I'll share two of them here.Crescent-News.com - Hospitals headed...

The other 'Big 3': Japanese car giants caught in sales skid, too - USATODAY.comIt was Kaizen Week in the paper, apparently, as the word...

FOXNews.com - Mystery Celebrity LinkYou'll have to click on the above link to see who said the following (the link is from Fox News...

Curious at Amazon, but Not Idle - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com This piece about Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos made me think about visiting the "Gemba"...

by Dan MarkovitzBest Buy is generally not talked about as an exemplar of lean. (It's best known for its Results Only Work Environment; read...

Dear Todd: My wife and I are both big fans of your The Olives Table cookbook, your television shows, and your Olives restaurant in Las...