I was planning on easing into the holidays, staying safe and healthy at home, trying to be thankful and appreciative for all that I have… and then this article ran across my radar via a Google ...
https://www.leanblog.org/2020/12/responding-to-a-one-sided-article-that-trashes-lean-in-healthcare/
It's been 10 years since I first wrote about my awkward acronym L.A.M.E. Is it helpful to distinguish between true Lean principles and "Lean As Misguidedly Explained?" Will we see more L.A.M.E. t...
Recently, when I posted a bit from the old 1984 NUMMI Team Member Handbook (more still to come on that), it allowed me to connect with Tom Wilson, a retired GM leader who spent time at NUMMI in ...
https://www.leanblog.org/2016/10/repeating-the-same-lean-mistakes-over-and-over-why/
You might remember my post from June about an emergency physician who wrote a journal article bashing “Lean” — but what he described didn't sound like Lean at all. As I said then: “In the...
https://www.leanblog.org/2016/10/tbt-a-doctors-response-to-this-doctor-who-was-upset-about-lean/
Today is the Labor Day holiday in the United States (and in Canada, as I recently learned). It's not just a day of rest or a celebration of people who work… it's a also day to acknowledge union...
https://www.leanblog.org/2016/09/labor-day-and-lean-creating-better-workplaces-not-l-a-m-e-ones/
We'll probably also talk about this article that was published yesterday on QualityDigest.com: "Lean Is About Quality, Not Just Speed or Efficiency... in Factories or in Hospitals" It might ruffl...
For decades, manufacturers have been tripped up by the simplistic idea that Lean is about “zero inventories.” It probably didn't help that one of the earliest and most prominent books about w...
https://www.leanblog.org/2016/06/be-careful-with-no-waiting-rooms-just-like-zero-inventories/
Now, there’s a story written by an emergency medicine physician, Dr. Brad Cotton, that appears in a publication called “Emergency Medicine News” — FIRST PERSON: ‘We Fired Our Hospital�...
https://www.leanblog.org/2016/06/this-doctor-is-upset-about-something-but-its-not-really-lean/