Blogs about: Value Stream
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Healthcare organisations urged: "'Don't give up on 'Lean'"
Healthcare organisations – including hospitals – are giving up too soon on ‘Lean’ based improvement initiatives, according to specialist healthcare quality, innovation and productivity improvement ena… more →
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Lean Implementation - When to Pull
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Kevin Meyer at the Evolving Excellence blog does a nice series called 5 Questions in which he asks v … more →
Software Modeling for Standardized Work
wrote 3 weeks ago: The concept of Standard Work is understood in virtually any work environment and is not exclusive to … more →
Can you help with a Business Model?
wrote 1 month ago: After being around different systems, process, models, process tools, etc, etc  I wanted to try and … more →
Why do Improvement Projects fail ?
wrote 1 month ago: Am I right in my assumptions why Improvement Projects Fail? (or don’t achieve what they set out to) … more →
Flow is better - part two
wrote 3 months ago: Following up from my last post a few weeks ago (Scrum is Good, Flow is better) Â … as promised … more →
Value stream mapping v.s common process development - value over workflow
wrote 4 months ago: I should say that I’m not an expert at value stream mapping but I think I have understood the … more →
First draft of Kanban system part 2
wrote 5 months ago: See earlier post (http://quantumsoftware.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/first-draft-of-kanban-system) for … more →
Lean Root Cause Analysis
wrote 5 months ago: Do you have processes that don’t perform the way you would like them to? Do you have processing erro … more →
Healthcare organisations urged: "'Don't give up on 'Lean'"
wrote 5 months ago: Healthcare organisations – including hospitals – are giving up too soon on ‘Lean’ based improvement … more →
People over processes, but what about continuous value stream improvements?
wrote 6 months ago: The agile manifesto says “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools” and I c … more →
Lean Skills Training
wrote 7 months ago: Most of our clients know us for our healthcare consulting skills which include project management, s … more →
Understanding Customer (and Patient) Wishes
wrote 7 months ago: Listening to the Voice of the Customer (VotC) is an important factor in successful Lean programmes b … more →
Are you operating at the right Lean level of detail?
wrote 8 months ago: I heard a wonderful anecdote today that can be applied to Lean programmes. A teacher in a rural scho … more →
Achieving the EWTD in Healthcare
wrote 8 months ago: More than opt-outs and reporting systems, healthcare organisations facing the need for compliance wi … more →
Consumers pull value from producers
wrote 8 months ago: 1) you, the producer give me, the consumer, an empty kanban 2) I, the consumer, fill out the kanban … more →
Lean and Agile
wrote 10 months ago: The previous 2 days I attended a course on Lean, organized by Robin Dymond and Jurgen De Smet in Ghe … more →
Lean Markets Pulling For Rapid Process Improvements (RPI)
wrote 1 year ago: The economic news this morning is not so good. The Institute of Supply Management (ISM) manufacturin … more →
Operations: 11-21-08 Lean, TPS, Kaizen, Kanban & Value Streams
wrote 1 year ago: Lean Manufacturing, Toyota Production System, Just In Time, Kaizen, Kanban, and Value Stream, Exampl … more →
The 2 BIG Branches in Business Bonsai
wrote 1 year ago: You know the kind of branches that I’m talking about. The big ones near the ground that you h … more →
