Tag: Video

KaiNexus Webinar Recording – Our First Years in Continuous Improvement

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Here is a recording of our most recent KaiNexus webinar: Getting Started with Continuous Improvement: Lessons and Reflections Dr. Greg Jacobson and I reflect on our...

Video: What is Kaizen?

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I made this short three-minute video for KaiNexus where I try to succinctly answer the question, "What is Kaizen?" Click the thumbnail below to view...

Weird Al’s Hilarious “Mission Statement” Song & Video Mocks Corporate Buzzwords

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"Weird Al" Yanokvic skewers corporate buzzwords in this new song and music video. He also skewers the now-tired (in my opinion) "hand writing on a...

What Does #Lean Flow Look Like in Healthcare? Check Out These...

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It's easy for people to think that Lean is about cost-cutting. That would be wrong, but many people associate Lean with cost cutting. Cost cutting...

Video: Toyota Helps Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Their Eye Clinic

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California week on the blog continues after yesterday's post about Lean at San Francisco General Hospital. Today, I'm flying to Los Angeles to attend the...

Failure Is Indeed an Option if We’re Trying New Things

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If we're trying new things, there are bound to be "failures." If our leaders want guaranteed success, we won't be trying many new things. The...

Video: Formula 1 Pit Stops 1950 & Today… a Huge Difference

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I'm not a racing fan, but wow this video is impressive. I can appreciate a great process and all of the planning that's involved. I...

Great Steve Jobs Video (& Transcript) from 1990 on Continuous Improvement

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tl;dr: In this post, Mark shares a video and transcript featuring Steve Jobs discussing the concept of continuous improvement in 1990. He examines how...

Lean Thinking: We Don’t Blame Individuals for Systemic Errors

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I saw this video last night on Paul Levy's blog and it's important enough that I want to share it here with a few...

Weekend Fun: Lean in a British Hospital Soap Opera

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Hat tip to Paul Levy for sharing this video originally in his blog post. Here is the video (you just have to watch the first...

Super Bowl Commercial: American Factories? You Can’t Do That! Really?

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I'm a bit of a counter-culturalist when it comes to the hype about Super Bowl commercials being entertainment and being something we "have to...

Parody Video – Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together

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Next class: Boston, May 20, 2015 I was thinking yesterday about the "Lean for Knowledge Work" seminars I'm doing with Jim Benson and I was...