Tag: Layoffs
My Article in “Hospital & Health Networks” on Waste in Healthcare
After last week's piece on "putting the continuous back into continuous improvement," I had another article published this past week.
This new article was published...
As Seen on TV: Random Lean Terms in Commercials
On a recent Sunday morning, I was watching cable news channels and two different commercials had a word jump out at me, words that...
Fox News Channel Understands “Lean” Better than the WSJ
On Friday, there was yet another Wall Street Journal article about Lean (fixating as they always do on the "Just In Time" component). The...
Doofus and Leanie Cartoon #4 – GM vs. Toyota
It has been a while since I've collaborated with artist Ed Butler on a "Doofus and Leanie" cartoon (Ed was also the artist for...
Why GM Blamed JIT for Layoffs After the Japan Earthquake —...
TL;DR -- GM vs. Toyota After the Japan Earthquake
General Motors (GM)
Blamed Just-In-Time (JIT) for parts shortages
Temporarily laid off workers when production stopped
Treated downtime as...
A Few Random Links – Oct 22 2010
It's time for a Lean Blog feature where I throw a few links at you - articles I've saved and read that maybe don't...
My Guest Article on Lean as an Alternative to Hospital Layoffs
Thanks to FierceHealthcare.com for publishing my guest article on the front page of their site: "How lean management helped hospitals avoid layoffs."
The article features...
My First Visit to the Toyota Truck Plant in San Antonio...
This blog post is about my first visit to TMMTX in 2010.
Hospitals Under Pressure, Resorting to Layoffs and Slash and Burn, Not...
Generally, with the term "lean," it's easy for people to leap to a conclusion that Lean equals layoffs. This is often the fear in...
Lean Healthcare at Denver Health is Front-Page News
It's nice to see examples of Lean Healthcare success in the news, this time on the front page of the Denver Post -- "Denver...
When “Efficiency” Misses the Point: A L.A.M.E. Lean Story on NPR
TL;DR: An NPR story about workplace "efficiency" illustrates L.A.M.E.--Lean As Misguidedly Executed--where tools like 5S are applied without respect for people or employee engagement....
Re-visiting Chapter 2 of Out of the Crisis (Part 1)
Continuing my series on re-reading Dr. W. Edwards Deming's book Out of the Crisis, I'm posting a series of tweets from the Chapter along...
