The Lean Insider

One of the better presentations I heard recently about lean in healthcare focused on what may be an important trend in this area – manufactu...

I don’t normally write about awards, particularly those given by one company to another, because they rarely have significance to anyone oth...

Healthcare, and how it can be improved with lean principles, is simultaneously a huge opportunity and an incredibly scary situation.        ...

A new branch of the Shingo Prize honoring a division or a whole company, not just a single plant, will be rolled out next year.            ...

When it comes to Six Sigma, talk is cheap, according to the Aberdeen Group . In other words, lots of companies claim to be doing Six Sigma, ...

I previously wrote about a study by the Aberdeen Group , focusing on The Low Rates of Lean Implementation that the study confirmed in a wide...

A disturbing, but not surprising report on foreign college students enrolling – actually, NOT enrolling – in U.S. science and engineering p...

A new report offers interesting figures about the gap between U.S. and Japanese automakers. However, the report only touches on the real re...

            I’m not a CEO, or even a plant manager. But if I were, I’d sure be worried about finding good leaders for my company.           ...

            TBM Consulting Group says its annual survey shows lean culture gaining ground, but I’m a bit skeptical as to what that really m...