10 Key Lean Mindsets for Factories, Hospitals, Startups, and More

Article written by Mark Graban It’s been more than 25 years since the term “Lean Production” was coined, although the Toyota Production System is much older than that. Hospitals and health systems have been using Lean as an improvement methodology and management system for more than ten years. It’s also been about five years since the “Lean Startup” methodology was

Lean’s a Journey, Not a Sprint

Changes are driven by the  #people who actually work with #patients! NorthBay Healthcare’s Lean journey enters its fourth year next month.  It has been an uneven ride because of some personnel changes, and to some degree, my impatience. READ THE FULL NEWS

What’s the point of Lean training?

This is great article written by David Bovis. I love to hear people discussing the importance of ‘Purpose’ and how it has to be clearly defined at all levels of an organisation, if alignment and accountability are to flourish. It reminds me of the philosophy I’ve read, in which it has been agreed across the ages that through language, the

5X Why most Leaders are not Good Enough

This is a very interesting article wrote by Philip Holt! Jeffrey Liker first provided real insight into Lean Leadership in his book, the Toyota Way , in 2003. This followed on from the insights into the Toyota Production System, or Toyota Way, that Womack and Jones had first introduced to us in the 1990s and attempted to provide insight to the