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

I have been reading (re-reading)  Lean Daily Management for Healthcare  by Brad White. I was very impressed by the book the first time throu...

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...

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

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

  According to Lean, value is defined by three concepts. First, it is something that the client wants or needs and is willing to pay for....

  There is a new paradigm, a new methodology, with proven results over many different industries including human health care. The new mod...