Today’s guest is Michael Ballé, an author of many novels about Lean management, published by the Lean Enterprise Institute. He joins us for this episode from Paris (he shares many photos of “Paris moments” via his Twitter account @TheGembaCoach). Michael…
Podcasts are sponsored by KaiNexus and their continuous improvement software platform — www.KaiNexus.com Today’s podcast is different than my usual interview format. I still plan on continuing this podcast, but I also wanted to try something new. I’m st…
Today’s guest is David Mann, talking about the new 3rd edition of his Shingo-Award winning book “Creating a Lean Culture.” David tells us what’s new in the book and we discuss “leader standard work” and other elements of a Lean culture. For a link to thi…
Today’s episode is actually the republication of an episode of the “Healthcare Tech Talk” podcast, #23, where I was a guest of Terry Baker and Kelley Hill, talking about Lean healthcare for an audience of healthcare IT and IS people. This is being shared…
My guests today are Darrell Damron and Hollie Jensen and we’re talking about Lean in Washington state government. Darrell and Hollie are both state employees, serving in the role of Enterprise Lean Consultant within a team called “Results Washington.” I’…
My guest for episode #209 is George Friesen, Business Practice Leader for Lean Transformations in the Workforce Solutions Group at St. Louis Community College. In this episode, we talk about his early experiences at the GM/Toyota NUMMI plant, why candor …
Joining me for episode #208 is Michael Bremer, author of the recently released eBook How to Do a Gemba Walk. Michael is president of The Cumberland Group, a business improvement consulting firm based in Illinois. In today’s episode, Michael talks about d…
Episode #207 is part two of my conversation with Chris Jerry, founder of The Emily Jerry Foundation. The foundation was created in the aftermath of the tragic death of his daughter, Emily – a preventable medical error caused by a number of factors and ba…
My guest for episode #206 is Ed Pound, co-author of the book Factory Physics for Managers: How Leaders Improve Performance in a Post-Lean Six Sigma World that was released in April. It is, of course, a new version of the original Factory Physics textbook…
Episode #205 is a conversation with Joe Schnur, VP Business Development at Intelligent M, a company that “designs data-driven hand hygiene compliance improvement solutions for hospitals that dramatically reduce healthcare-acquired infections and their as…
