February 2012
5 posts
Guiding Principles of Operational Excellence -...
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Our U.S. Healthcare Non-System - Now It's Personal
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Guiding Principles of Operational Excellence -...
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Describing and Measuring What Great Looks Like
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Adventures In Air Travel - The Canadian Experience
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January 2012
7 posts
Tech Support
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Standard Work and PDSA
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Red Dots
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Small Problems Become Bigger Problems
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Another Example of Non-Value-Added Activity & Lean...
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More Hope That There's Hope - Improving...
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My Old Job Had 8% Value-Added-Steps
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December 2011
3 posts
We're Not Going To Mess With the Part of the...
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Lean Thinking Applied To Research
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Guiding Principles: Flow & Pull Value, Assure...
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October 2011
2 posts
Focus on Process, Embrace Scientific Thinking
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Lead With Humility, Respect Every Individual
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September 2011
4 posts
Newsweek Featured the Wrong Doctor
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Rehearsing
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More Misadventures In Retail Shopping (Hey! That's...
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How Many Rocks Do We Have?
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August 2011
2 posts
Who Drew The First Value Stream Map?
It would be my contention that Dr. W. Edwards Deming drew the first value stream map. I have in my possession a copy of his 1982 book, Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position. This book summarized Dr. Deming’s thoughts and a lot of what he presented in his 4-day seminars in the early years. Later, he published Out of The Crisis and then The New Economics.
In the 1982 book you can...
Lean Consumption - Found a company that (almost)...
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April 2011
1 post
Customer Standard Work
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February 2011
5 posts
Quiet AND Warm
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Managing By Numbers and The Annual Performance...
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This Has Nothing to Do With That ... Or Does It...
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It's Official
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Letter to Brian Williams-Best Super Bowl...
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November 2010
4 posts
Kaizen Events and Training Wheels
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Go and Watch
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4 Letter MBA
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Good Gemba Walk
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October 2010
2 posts
Quality Book Surprise
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Kitchen Kanban
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September 2010
4 posts
Pull - The Next Book I'm Going to Read
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Principle, Bravery and the X-Factor
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I Think I Was (Unknowingly) a "Bedaux Consultant"
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3P (Production Preparation Process) at Park...
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August 2010
1 post
Does the "Deming Connection" have a down side?
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July 2010
5 posts
Lean Thinking & Innovation
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Short-termism
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Friends
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Three Selfs
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The Big Leagues
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June 2010
13 posts
Pay Is Not A Motivator
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Simplail? Detalicity? (Simplicity + Detail)
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Lean Thinking - Useful Definition
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Notes from the Lean Healthcare Transformation...
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Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit - The...
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