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Lean Blog

http://www.leanblog.org

A blog focused on "lean manufacturing" and the Toyota Production System, as applied to manufacturing, health care, and other industries.

• Added on: Apr 29th, 2007
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Mark Graban
• Listed in: Business Education
• Tags: lean manufacturing kaizen toyota production system lean lean healthcare lean hospital

Recent Posts

• Lean as a Way to Save Manufacturing Featured on CNN

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 03:00 in video, toyota, healthcare, layoffs, factory examples, detroit three

  Hat tip to blog reader Steven H. for sending this video my way. It's always nice to see Lean featured in the mainstream media, including CNN. Click here for the video at cnn.com.The story says that the company, a guitar string maker called D'Addario ...

• Lean Healthcare Overview Article in CFO Mag

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 03:00 in healthcare, thedacare, emiliani

  Keen to Be Lean - CFO Magazine - December 2009 Issue - CFO.comI'll share the above link with little commentary for now, a nice overview of Lean Healthcare for CFO Magazine. I helped the writer with research and ended up being quoted a few times. No m...

• Sneak Peak - New LeanBlog.org Design Coming Soon

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 11:00 in blog admin

  The times, they are a changin'. It has been about three years since I refreshed my blog, giving it a facelift from the original design (or lack thereof) to basically what you see today (with this old logo in between).Most likely this Saturday, you'll...

• A Lean Guy Reads the WSJ, Nov 30 Edition

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 03:00 in safety, deming, error proofing, wsj, a lean guy reads

  Some days, it seems the WSJ is a treasure trove of tangentially Lean related articles. Similar to "blog carnivals," this is sort of a WSJ carnival for 11/30/09. Some of the themes include real "value" versus the perception of it, leadership and incen...

• Hospitals Saving Millions with Staff Suggestions

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 03:00 in healthcare, kaizen, respect for people, standard work, bodek

  In the past week, I found two articles about hospitals that are engaging staff members through suggestion programs.Employee suggestions are a core part of Lean and the Toyota Production System. There's so much wasted potential when hospitals don't ge...

• Cleveland Clinic and Lean Healthcare in Newsweek

  Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 03:00 in healthcare, deming, standard work, value stream mapping

  What Health Reform Can Learn From Cleveland Clinic | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.comAlthough it's not the primary focus of the article, Lean gets a mention early in the article:A century after Henry Ford began building cars on an assembly line, Clevel...

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DiamondVVV1

Very intriguing ideas and a great site -- I have left you a comment onsite.

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