The Lean Insider

A leading healthcare improvement organization has declared that we have reached a watershed moment in efforts to improve healthcare.        ...

            That concept of discontent, at the heart of a lean strategy, was recently confirmed by the results of a survey of manufacturers ...

Growing numbers of industry executives are making a lean supply chain one of their top priorities, but their use of outdated technologies is...

Not long ago I posted a list of what I viewed as The 10 Best Lean Blogs , also including links to several other interesting blogs not entire...

Measuring performance is essential, and many organizations use a scorecard or dashboard as one measurement tool. But what makes a good score...

A new study confirms that in hospitals, as in other institutions, top management commitment is critical to achieve improvements. And in heal...

Hewlett-Packard is not a company one normally thinks of as pursuing a lean strategy. Indeed, as far as I can tell, lean terms are not ingrai...

An often-heard challenge to lean is that it is only good for high-volume operations and doesn’t work well in high-variety, low-volume operat...

Those with an interest in the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award should note that the criteria for the prize have been significantly c...

A job in lean or continuous improvement management pays, on average, $81,846.             That is one of the findings in the annual manufact...