New book: The Lean Strategy As I mentioned in a Gemba Academy podcast released last week, the most recent business book that I have read is The Lean Strategy by Michael Balle, Daniel Jones, Jacques Chaize, […]
Today Gemba Academy published a podcast that I recorded with Ron Pereira last week. Ron and I first started looking into recording a podcast together two years ago when I was living in Tokyo, but our […]
How many morning or “start-up” meetings have you been part of that are fun and invigorating? I bet none as energetic and the one that Tim Wolput and I participated in recently at the Japanese izakaya restaurant […]
When I was back in Japan last month for a visit – my second visit since moving back to the U.S. in June 2016 – I spent the day with my friend and Toyota mentor, […]
Two weeks ago I was in Palm Desert for the annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit co-hosted by Catalysis and the Lean Enterprise Institute. It was the first time in many years that I’d been able to […]
This week I’m attending the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Palm Springs, co-hosted by two of the organizations for which I’m a faculty member of – Catalysis and the Lean Enterprise Institute. Given the focus […]
I just got back from a 9-day trip to Japan and it was everything I hoped it would be from both a personal and professional perspective. I wanted to share some of professional reflections here, with a […]
I’m at the San Francisco International Airport and about to board my flight back to Japan – the second time since we departed as residents 11 months ago. I’m super excited to be back to […]
In the first two posts in this series, I shared how the leaders of Nakano City, one of the 23 wards within the Tokyo metropolitan area, utilize kaizen (small continuous improvement) and kaikaku (large breakthrough improvements) as their […]
In the first post in this series, I shared how the leaders of Nakano City, one of the 23 wards within the Tokyo metropolitan area, describe how they see kaizen (small continuous improvement) and kaikaku (large breakthrough improvements) […]
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