Tag: Starbucks

I've recently been reading an enjoyable book by Peter Sims, Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries. The practice of Kaizen, of course,...

Our Kaizen Institute guide, Brad Schmidt (pictured above) talked to us on Monday about standardized work. He said, of the practice at Toyota, that...

Following up on my notes from Day 1, here are some notes and key points from Day 2 of the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit....

One of the variations of my acronym L.A.M.E. is "Lean As Misguidedly Explained," and I recently ran across two fresh instances of this (and,...

It's nowhere near as important as yesterday's topic of employee and patient safety, but my last two days of using the new Mac OS...

I really had a great learning experience at last week's LEI Lean Transformation Summit that was held here in Dallas. The event sold out...

Here's some weekend fun leading into the holiday season... I received a marketing email today from Starbucks that included a phrase that would jump...

I was traveling yesterday, so I read a number of blog posts that I kept open in my browser for my flight. I wrote...

For a more traditional approach to this topic, check out this alternative post, "Real Lean at Starbucks or Tayloristic Industrial Engineering?". Below is the more...

Once again, the WSJ has written about Lean at Starbucks (see my last post "Controversy over New Standardized Work at Some Starbucks Stores") in...

As a regular Starbucks customer (especially so when I lived in Boston, a few stories directly above a Starbucks store), I try to follow...

It's been a while since I've done a "What You're Searching For" Post, where I pull out items from my blog's stats, the keyword...