The Lean Insider

Color-coded wristbands are becoming a standard hospital best practice. The challenge is getting all hospitals to use wristbands in the same ...

When people, myself included, sing the praises of Toyota, we tend to focus on how its lean approach has enabled the company to streamline it...

While lean advocates are sometimes suspicious of technology, I am a believer in the idea that IT can be an enabler of lean. IT, of course, d...

A friend forwarded this to me. I thought all you lean devotees would enjoy it. ----------------------------- A company chairman was given a ...

The problems and delays plaguing development and construction of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner continue. The latest, as reported by Jon Ostrower o...

This falls into the category of “yeah, right.” Or maybe “did he really say that?” A new report from the Government Accountability Office say...

Last night, the CBS program “60 Minutes” did a nice job discussing process failures that led to the near-death last November of the newborn ...

Insurance companies pay huge amounts for healthcare. Some of them are beginning to realize it makes sense for them to pay to improve healthc...

At a time when outsourcing to countries with cheaper labor is all the rage, and when many people believe we are or soon will be in a recessi...

Supply chains are more complex, consumers are demanding more, and costs are increasing. Can lean help? I believe so, but first l...