What’s Going on at Whole Foods? It Doesn’t Sound Like #Lean
The chain Whole Foods is reportedly having inventory shortages and morale problems. It sounds like a real mess, but…
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Video: Toyota Helps Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Their Eye Clinic
California week on the blog continues after yesterday's post about Lean at San Francisco General Hospital.…
Unraveling the Mystery of Flow, Push, and Pull in Hospital Operations and the…
Of all of the different Lean concepts, it seems that the question of "push" versus "pull" is often the most…
#Lean Healthcare: The Really Good, the Sort of Bad, and the Ugly
I had a speaking engagement yesterday for a large system, with the audience consisting mainly of hospital CEOs and…
Forget Pull or Push, Focus on Improving Patient FLOW Instead
Back in the manufacturing world, the distinction between "push" and "pull" is often much more obvious than it is in…