Monthly Archives: November 2009
Lean Consulting Challenges
Being an internal lean consultant at a hospital has some challenges. In my consulting practice, I find countermeasures vary greatly depending on relationship with client and what stage they are on in their Lean journey. Below are a couple of challenges to … Continue reading
Filed under Change Management, Consulting, customers, Improve With Lean, Reflection
Keeping Lean Japanese
There is a trend towards removing the Japanese language or jargon from Lean transformations in the U.S. I understand why organizations would want to make lean thinking and the corresponding tools easier to digest, but I think we should seriously … Continue reading