Dear Lean Blog readers, I have an exciting opportunity here for a lucky reader. Gwendolyn Galsworth is author of outstanding books on visual management, including Visual Workplace, Visual Thinking: Creating Enterprise Excellence Through the Technologies of the Visual Workplace, and…
Donald Berwick: Curing the Healthcare System – BusinessWeek Good exposure for the applicability and use of Lean concepts in healthcare in BusinessWeek. Dr. Berwick is the head of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (based in Cambridge, coincidentally, like the Lean…
By Andy Wagner: I know how much Mark dislikes headlines that rhyme with lean, but perhaps he’ll make an exception for this example of everyday lean: At a hotel this weekend, somewhere between my first and second Kleenex, I realized,…
Episode #49 is another conversation with Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, who you might remember from Episode #26 last year and Episode #45, which was the first part of this conversation. In this episode, we talk about “Visual Displays,” a topic from…
Episode #45 is another conversation with Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, who you might remember from Episode #26 last year. In this episode, we talk about “Visual Displays,” a topic from her Shingo Award-winning book Visual Workplace, Visual Thinking: Creating Enterprise Excellence…
I know it’s weird that I have my camera in a bathroom, but it was a solo bathroom and I always have a camera in my pocket when doing Lean work. I ran across this papertowel dispenser and it wasn’t…
Visual-Lean Institute Forums ~ View Forum Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, a very popular guest on my Podcast, has a new web forum focused on visual management and “visuality.” It’s a new forum and, as I know with my LeanBoard, it can…
Relatively short post here, hopefully will prompt discussion and comments. People are typically very fond of their closed off storage spaces in workplaces (ranging from factories, to offices, to hospitals). Keeping things in drawers and behind cabinet doors is the…
Listen: Episode #26 of the LeanBlog Podcast brings us Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, of the Visual Lean Institute. She is the author, most recently of the book Visual Workplace, Visual Thinking: Creating Enterprise Excellence Through the Technologies of the Visual Workplace.…
I’m happy to announce a winner in the LeanBlog Contest that was sponsored by American LED-gible, Inc (www.ledgible.com). I had three outstanding entries, so it was a tough decision, but the winner is Andrea, who submitted an example from a…
Here’s a follow up to my earlier post on 5S not being about neatness (or for neatness’ sake). A reader submitted this anonymous comment that’s worth highlighting: Our plant has started a 5S program that is very counter productive. Tools…
Coors New Cold Activated Bottle Campaign uses Chromazoneâ„¢ Chill ‘n’ Reveal Ink Mmmmmm…..beer. I’m not sure if this was really necessary, but here’s a good one for 5 PM Friday. Just saw a TV for a gimmicky Coors Light bottle…