Tag: Spear

It's a not-so-regular feature, but it's time to clean up the Lean Blog Backlog (say that 10 times fast), the stories that I've tucked...

Lean Leap to Health Care #3 (click for Part #2) by Scott McDuffee It would seem to be an efficient method to move into Health Care...

Award Recipients - The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence - shingoprize.org The full list of winners has been released. Congratulations to all! It's personally quite...

Episode #58 of the LeanBlog Podcast brings us Steven J. Spear as our guest. Spear is a Senior Researcher at MIT, a Senior Fellow...

No Detroiters Need Apply - Automotive NewsFirst off, I hate the whole "czar" term in our government. Ick.But if we need a "car czar",...

I recorded an upcoming LeanBlog Podcast with Steven J. Spear yesterday. Here is that episode: https://www.leanblog.org/2009/01/leanblog-podcast-58-steven-j-spear/ He's promoting his new book Chasing the Rabbit: How Market...

A new design for healthcare delivery - The Boston Globe Good column here from Steve Spear (of "Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System"...

Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System -- HBS Working Knowledge Here is a summary of the famous Spear/Bowen article on Toyota's "DNA." If...

VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Toyota Production System --> Dead Link Here is a nice succinct definition of the Veteran's Affairs hospital production system in Pittsburgh....

Today's Detroit News wrote about lean in healthcare, this time in their own beloved University of Michigan system. Titled "U-M Hospital Takes Page from...

Curious Cat Management Improvement BlogOK, so it doesn't seem very lean for a blog to link to a blog that's linked to an article....

Fixing Healthcare From The Inside, Today Available through HBS... this is written by Steven J. Spear, a former Harvard professor who has written about Toyota...