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...

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

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...

Part of the mindset of thinking Lean is seeing and understanding your practice as a collection of systems . Individually, they seem appropri...

This is a continuation of the previous blog “‘Pushy’ Rescue Groups.” We are revisiting the difference between “pull” and “push” systems. ...

No, not Albert Einstein! Moraito “Morey” Einstein, Albert’s third cousin, twice removed on his mother’s side. Just kidding! However, t...

SMED stands for Single Minute Exchange of Dies. One of Shigeo Shingo’s and Toyota’s greatest gains in increasing flow was figuring out how ...

In a Lean manufacturing setting, products are ideally “pulled” through the value stream, one piece at a time, continually. There might be ti...

Mary is licensed veterinary technician. When a shocky, weak puppy was presented, Dr. A tells her that a PCV and blood glucose is always indi...