The Lean Insider

When I read about the power outage that occurred in Florida earlier this week, I couldn’t help but wonder whether an application of lean too...

At best, lean and IT often maintain a kind of peaceful co-existence, but not really a warm relationship. Lean processes are typi...

It would be nice if our next president leads a lean administration. What do I mean by that? First, government tends to be bloated and ineffi...

Many hospitals are focusing their lean efforts on emergency rooms, trying to streamline the flow of patients through that increasingly busy ...

In my last post , I talked about how technology alone will not eliminate medication errors in hospitals caused by bad processes. ...

I wrote recently about research by the Philadelphia Inquirer into how many hospital patients are actually harmed by serious, avoidable medi...

I was reading an article on CNN.com about the successful launch of the space shuttle this past Thursday, and was taken aback by something in...

How many lives can be saved by using a lean approach to improve hospitals? That’s hard to quantify, of course, but the Philadelp...

The tools of lean manufacturing can be particularly valuable in helping us address energy and environmental concerns, I believe. This though...

Alan Mulally, who became CEO of Ford after serving at Boeing, has demonstrated in several ways that he understands lean principles. Perhaps ...