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...

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...

This blog post is about a Lean concept that I have wanted to share with you for awhile. It concerns the idea of error proofing or mistake pr...

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...

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...

In Japanese, the word for waste is muda. Any time, activity or resources that do not add value can be considered waste. Traditionally, there...

  The value stream is the overall high-level sequence of steps necessary to take a product or service from start to finish (and the delays t...

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