Beyond Manufacturing

Lean seems to be taking root just about everywhere... manufacturing, government, healthcare, education... you name it.  Now we learn about lean manufa…

We're always thrilled when a simple, manual solution to a problem can surpass the performance of expensive technology.  Regular readers know that…

Lean people have a favorite saying of "drain the swamp," typically meaning reducing inventory to expose problems.  When raw, in-process, and…

An article in last Sunday's NYTimes addressed the value of corporations staying small. In contrast to the early days of the internet when "ge…

Fellow lean blogger Mark Graban is the author of the just-published Lean Hospitals.  The following is a brief Q&A with him on lean in healthcare,…

I live a couple blocks off a nice wide stretch of beach that's about five miles long with an extinct volcano sitting right at my end of it.   Two…

A hat tip to David at Photon Courier for this story at Carpe Diem, comparing the supply and demand for lawyers and doctors. In 1963, there were only…

Those of us in the lean manufacturing world have known for a long time that one of the most powerful ways to create change and efficiency is by levera…