Alternative History: GM Uses Lean to Remain #1 in the Auto Industry
ChatGPT is still all the rage. It's one thing to treat the chatbot like Google. But I recently learned about some…
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Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 27th, 2023
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing…
Lean Whiskey #37: Starbucks’ Gemba, Toyota’s Tour, Product Innovation…
"I'll have a half-caff no-whip soy-milk chestnut praline latte... to-go."
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The Video From the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan
When I visited the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan (see my previous blog posts about it), they had a display that…
What Blog Post Would an AI Bot Write About Lean in Healthcare?
There's a new "AI copy writing tool" that I read about called copy.ai. I decided to play around with a free trial…
Toyota Was Helped, not Hampered, by TPS During the Pandemic
A culture of learning makes the difference, not "low inventory"
Last year, I wrote a post that criticized…
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: November 18, 2022
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing…
At Toyota: Mistakes are OK, as Long as We Learn; Culture and Psychological Safety
The book that I'm writing on learning from mistakes is not an academic research-driven project. My "field…
Gerald Harris on Lean Leadership Lessons From Automotive Manufacturing,…
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My guest for Episode #459 of the Lean…
Ken Pilone, the Author of Lean Leadership on a Napkin; Toyota Says…
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My guest for Episode #455 of the Lean…
Maybe “Just in Time” (JIT) Should Be Called “Short Lead…
This is the starting point for a blog post that I should expand on... after posting these initial thought…
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 12th, 2022
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Alan Robinson on Continuous Improvement for All and Practical Innovation in…
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My guest for Episode #451 of the Lean…
Torbjorn Netland, PhD on Company Production Systems, Lean & Technology, and…
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Mark and Tor at the AME 2022 Conference
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If Mistakes Are Expected, We Can React Appropriately and Constructively (and Even…
Recently, I re-shared a LinkedIn post by Maryam Najafi PhD, a clinical scientist from Germany.
I re-posted…
Ben Bensaou: From Lean Production to “Built to Innovate”
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Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: December 3, 2021
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing…
Confusion Galore, A Vaccine Administration Error: My Moderna COVID Booster
Update Nov 5 7:30 pm: Added an Addendum / Epilogue to the story at the end of the post
Having received a…