Tag: Taiichi Ohno
Data vs. Facts – Bridge Wait Times & Hourly Rounding
There's a great Taaichi Ohno quote that I was reminded of last week (see a previous post from 2010 on this).
"Data is of course...
Deming on Leadership: The Role of a Manager of People
TL;DR: Deming argued that the role of a manager of people is not judging performance, ranking employees, or enforcing authority--but creating trust, understanding systems,...
April Fool: Announcing my Next Lean Book Project – Baby’s First...
After the nice response to Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, I often get asked, "So, what's your next book going to be?" (other than...
#LeanStartup Conference 2012 Notes – Get Out of the Building
In his kickoff to the Lean Startup Conference, Eric Ries promised that there was so much content and so many speakers crammed into the...
Hospital Workers, Flu Shots & Standardized Work
While working in different environments and different industries, I've seen many work requirements that were deemed "non-negotiable" by management - and rightly so. For...
Standardized Work: “Unity in the Essential, Liberty in the Non-Essential…”
Our Kaizen Institute guide, Brad Schmidt (pictured above) talked to us on Monday about standardized work. He said, of the practice at Toyota, that...
Learning from Medical Mistakes: Why Preventable Errors Keep Repeating in Healthcare
Preventable medical mistakes remain one of the most serious challenges in healthcare, yet many hospitals still struggle with learning from medical errors and preventing...
ASQ Influential Voices: Quality & Social Responsibility (& Lean)
In this month's ASQ blog post, their CEO Paul Borawski writes a new post "The Intersection of Quality and Social Responsibility," where he defines...
Partial Transcript of Podcast #142 – @EricRies on Taiichi Ohno &...
Here is a transcript of last week's podcast with Eric Ries talking about the impact that Toyota legend Taiichi Ohno had on his work...
Eric Ries On How Taiichi Ohno’s Ideas Shaped The Evolution Of...
Episode #142 brings us a returning guest (#115), Eric Ries, author of the best-selling book The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create...
Norman Bodek Remembers Taiichi Ohno: “You Don’t Understand Just-in-Time”
Norman Bodek recorded this conversation with me in early 2012, on what would have been Taiichi Ohno's 100th birthday. Having first met Ohno in...
Today Would Have Been Taiichi Ohno’s 100th Birthday
Hat tip to John Shook and the Lean Enterprise Institute for pointing this out via his email newsletter -- today would have been the...
