Tag: Toyota

Lean Lessons for Healthcare from a Boeing 737 Factory Video

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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...

Frequently Highlighted Passages in “Lean Hospitals”

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

Podcast #118 – Jim Womack on GM, Toyota & Lean Six...

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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...

Guest Post: What is “Yokoten?”

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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...

Fox News Channel Understands “Lean” Better than the WSJ

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On Friday, there was yet another Wall Street Journal article about Lean (fixating as they always do on the "Just In Time" component). The...

Doofus and Leanie Cartoon #4 – GM vs. Toyota

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It has been a while since I've collaborated with artist Ed Butler on a "Doofus and Leanie" cartoon (Ed was also the artist for...

Everybody Deserves Workplace Respect – Even the T.S.A.

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As somebody who flies about 75,000 miles a year, I am far too acquainted with the Transportation Security Administration and their annoyances (to the...

Questions about and Lessons from a Steering Wheel Falling Off

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In the news yesterday, a General Motors recall over what could be just one isolated steering wheel problem in an Ohio-built Chevrolet (don't call...

Management Journal Article about Children’s Medical Center Dallas

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I am happy to share, with permission, a new journal article that I co-authored with Jim Adams ("The Synthesizer"), the senior director of laboratory...

More Trust, Less Fear

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As I'm going through revisions of my book, Lean Hospitals, a theme jumps out at me in Chapter 2.... it's all about trust. The first...

GM Blames Layoffs on the Japan Earthquake and JIT; Should Instead...

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Here is a sad article with the headline"General Motors lays off workers at NY plant." This is an addition to earlier Shreveport layoffs. The media...

From the LEI Summit: Mike Rother on Toyota’s View on ROI

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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...
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