The Lean Insider

I recently had a conversation with John W. Davis, author of Progressive Kaizen:: The Key to Gaining a Global Competitive Advantage and pres...

I recently spoke with Bert Teeuwen who has spent 12 years as trainer, coach, and implementer of Lean in both industrial and public environme...

I recently had a conversation with change management expert Rick Maurer , who recently published a second edition of his best-selling book, ...

I recently received a brochure for the upcoming 2011 Lean and Six Sigma Conference in Phoenix at the end of February, and I am quite impres...

Today's blog entry features a special note from Mark Graban , author of the book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and ...

According to a recent article over on the STL Today website, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis has seen dramatic improvements during t...

I just read this great article over at the Bloomberg Businessweek site titled Porsche ‘Shock Therapy’ Spurs VW, Lufthansa Efficiency Drive...

I recently read a very informative article by Stephen Jannise on the Software Advice site that covers a concept often left out of Lean ma...

One of the most effective problem-solving approaches used by Toyota is the A3 report. "A3" is actually a paper size (11" x 17...

I first met Cheryl Jekiel -- vice president of Human Resources for the Flying Food Group -- at an annual Association for Manufacturing Excel...