Dan asked a really good question in the forum for the Move to Healthcare networking site. He suggested I pose it here, and I thought that was a great idea. Click “comments” to share your thoughts on this (and a…
Got this question from a reader: After successful application of lean to clinical processes we are moving into the the finance/accounting transaction areas such as A/P and A/R and month end close and are finding a more difficult road to…
Blog reader Kevin wrote with this excellent question (used with his permission): My question is about the idea I see many using in the lean blogosphere…and that being the continued and rampant use of Japanese terms when dealing with lean.…
Hi everyone – I got stumped on a reader question…. what’s the best Lean overview video/DVD that’s out on the market now (for a manufacturing audience). “Can you recommend a video that will explain the basic concepts of Lean for…
Fire people who think they’re entitled to run things – Jacksonville Business Journal: The linked article and question were sent by a reader who asked, in part: I discovered your blog and podcast a few months ago and have been…
From Devin, a graduate student, posted with his permission: “I’m an operations management student who is writing a report on lean manufacturing at GM. However, the more I research, the more I find that there’s far more to write about…
I got this question on the Lean Board, thought it was worth sharing to the bigger audience here. Anyone have any success stories on extremely difficult concrete head operators? I have a couple that just don’t get one piece flow…
I got a question from a reader and Theory of Constraints fan: “One of the topics that I’m struggling with is the relationship between Kaizen and TOC. When Norman Bodek talks about the savings people have gotten through Kaizen, does…
I received a question from a reader that was also addressed on the Daily Kaizen blog and Gemba Panta Rei. This question is from a hospital setting, but I think it’s a good general Lean question: One our our struggles…
I got a couple of reader emails last week that prompted me to think about Lean and the Toyota Way principle of “respect for people.” Whether it’s a supposedly “Lean” environment or not, why is true “respect” so often missing?…
Here is another reader question I received this week: I was wondering how you deal with removing people from the company who resist change while maintaining the culture where people are not afraid to be laid off due to improvements.…
We spend a lot of time here talking about how to prevent Lean failures and what some of the root causes are. I received a question from a reader that I thought I’d open to the group: What are the…
