Certainly, there is not a lot of good that comes out of a worldwide pandemic such as Covid-19. But one bright spot of it is that it has forc...

Today's post comes from Gerald Cronin of the Vivarium Operational Excellence (VOE) Network. The VOE Network is a worldwide group of L...

It seems to me that, on balance, there is an inordinate amount of attention and money spent on advertising, optimizing social media presenc...

“ Respect for people” is a fundamental principle of Lean and a major difference between Lean and the Western, more Taylor -esque, concept o...

This is a continuation of the last post dealing with the training methods taught to Japan by the U.S.'s Training Within Industry after...

With this post, I take a closer look at the Training Within Industry's Job Instruction course that I introduced in the post "The...

Over the past few years, while discussing what Lean is with people, I have had one or two of them make comments to the effect that they were...

Last month, shortly after my blog on the “Lean Self”, my friend and mentor Mark Graban posted a comment to that blog. This was unusual.  Us...