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With the recently announced resignation of Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple, many people are already speculating on the future of Apple. Certainly...

In the hustle and bustle of everyday work, amid the chaos of surviving our broken systems to get things done while juggling our efforts to f...

How many times have you heard someone say, “That’s not my job”? As we moved from the craftsman era to specialized, functional silos...

This morning, I read the following email sent to me by my good friend, Jeff Fuchs written to his lean students after a recent medical visit ...

Masaaki Imai June 2011 KAIZEN Institute USA forum View more presentations from Mike Wroblewski Last week I had the wonderful opportunity ...

One of our hospital clients that we are helping guide on their lean journey, in particular, using the 3P lean approach, is Children’s Hospit...

Here is a recent Dilbert strip poking fun at Kaizen. Kaizen is NOT something that is done to people as it seems in this joke yet in many com...

On a recent business process kaizen to improve a warehouse receiving process, our team was focused on improving the time from when the mat...

I found a copy of this recent Dilbert Comic Strip on a stand up meeting white board taking a poke at stand up meetings. Funny except for hi...

Coming up next week, Chris Schrandt and I will present for an afternoon on the theme of Using 3P to Support Healthcare Facility Design . Bot...

My friend, Bruce Hamilton (aka the toast guy from the Toast Kaizen DVD ) has started a new blog called Old Lean Dude . In his blog, Bruce gi...

There a many times traveling on the lean journey that we get frustrated, worn down and tired. The journey is not an easy one when face day a...

One of several books that helps me enormously to better understand the lean healthcare world is On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to S...

It has been extremely exciting this past year to enter the lean healthcare world to learn, share and improve processes with the spirit of ka...

During a recent kamishibai training session, I received the best compliment of my lean sensei career to date. At least I’m taking it as a co...

For the fourth and final blog review in my contribution to this year’s Annual Management Improvement Carnival , I will feature the Training ...

For the third of four blogs reviews in my contribution the 2010 Annual Management Improvement Carnival , I will highlight My Flexible Pencil...

For the second of four blogs reviews in my contribution to this year’s Annual Management Improvement Carnival , I will feature Lean for Ever...

It’s that time again for the Annual Management Improvement Carnival which is orchestrated by John Hunter, creator of the Curious Cat Managem...

One of our challenges in lean manufacturing is to try to level unevenness, called mura, through the value stream is improve the flow. Mura i...