Tag: Toyota

When it first came out, I was a big fan of Michael Lewis' book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game about the Oakland...

It's always great to see stories in the major media outlets about engaging front-line staff in improvement ideas. Recently, we had a piece in...

Friday night's PBS program the Nightly Business Report had a nice feature on the use of Lean at Good Samaritan Hospital in Downer's Grove,...

I loved the book  Moneyball by Michael Lewis, but I haven't seen the movie yet (I hear it's good). To me, it was a story...

I volunteered to give a presentation last Friday for the North Texas Society for Healthcare Risk Management, where  I was able to debut some...

First off, I'm not trying to dredge up a "Lean vs. Six Sigma" battle here. I'm not "anti-Six Sigma." I'm not a huge proponent...

One reason I love applying Lean thinking in new arenas as my career progresses is that each shift in industry leads to new challenges...

I met Newt Gingrich at the Ontario Hospital Association conference in late 2009, as I blogged about here: "Meeting Newt Gingrich, a Lean Champion." Yesterday...

Podcaster Cali Lewis (a fellow DFW-area Texan) hosts a show called GeekBeat.tv, where she normally highlights new consumer tech gadgets and nerdy robots from...

I love my Amazon Kindle (I have had a 2nd generation 3G Kindle for about two years). Amazon has recently made the device more...

Episode #118 is a follow-up to podcast #116 with  Jim Womack, founder and former Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Institute, now their Senior Advisor...

Mark's Note: Today's post is from Al Norval, with the firm Lean Pathways, Inc. In the Lean world, we hear all kinds of Japanese...