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Mistake proofing, also known as poka-yoke or error proofing, is an important lean tool, based on the principle that the best way to reduce e...

For those following the debate over health care reform, George Halvorson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente and author of Health Care Will Not Refo...

I’ve written before about efforts to limit the numbers of hours doctors (or at least medical residents) are required to work. But because...

Is it possible Microsoft has actually learned something about lean? I don’t believe anyone has ever referred to Microsoft as a lean comp...

With growing interest in applying lean concepts to healthcare, one trend we’ve seen is that people from other industries who ...

A question posted recently on LinkedIn asked about sources of information regarding the Toyota Production System. I was ple...

A disturbing case of process failure is being reported out of Los Angeles , with word that CT scans with eight times the normal dose of ra...

I recently made fun of a couple of articles on the Harvard Business Review website. So it seems only fair that now I want to ...

Total Productive Maintenance probably doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves. It is a critically important part of a lean strategy, bu...

I’ve created a new Lean Insider group on LinkedIn . The postings from this blog feed to the group. However, anyone who joins the group is ...