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How Can One Be A Better Sensei?
Author: Ballé, Michael
Media Format: E-letters
Publish Date: 9/2/2010
US packaging converter reaps benefits of Lean Manufacturing
Author: N/A
Summary
Media Format: Articles
Publish Date: 8/31/2010

Aerofil Technology Incorporated (ATI), a Missouri-based supplier of custom packaging and liquid and aerosol filling, has experienced a 100% increase in productivity and double digit inventory turns due to the implementation of lean manufacturing.

In Conversation with…Richard P. Shannon, MD
Author: Wachter, Robert
Summary
Media Format: Articles
Publish Date: 8/29/2010

Dr. Robert Wacher interviews Dr. Richard Shannon about applications of lean and Toyota methods and culture to healthcare quality and patient safety. Dr. Shannon talks about how lessons from Toyota have led to increased staff and clinician engagement in quality improvement, namely dramatic reductions in hospital-acquired infections. This improves patient safety and quality, reduces costs, and frees up capacity (potentially reducing the need for expensive construction efforts).

Don't Let Size be a Lean Barrier
Author: Jusko, Jill
Summary
Media Format: Articles
Publish Date: 8/27/2010

Small companies have some advantages over large companies in implementing lean, especially in the areas of culture change and feedback loops. (IndustryWeek)

Nurses Back by the Bedside: Releasing Time to Care (Lean Nursing) in New Zealand Hospitals
Author: N/A
Summary
Media Format: Videos and webinars
Publish Date: 8/27/2010

Releasing time to care is a program, based on lean, that was started in the British NHS.

This video shows how one hospital in Auckland is engaging front line staff to better understand their work and to eliminate waste, freeing up more time for patient care.

The Thinking Production System
Author: Balle, Michael; Godefroy Beauvallet; Art Smalley; Durward K Sobek
Summary
Media Format: Articles
Publish Date: 8/27/2010

Provides context about using A3 reports and A3 thinking by clarifying the link between the use of specific tools and their ultimate design in a system made to make better thinkers. (SoL Journal, Volume 7, Number 2. Full article access requires membership in the Society for Organizational Learning.)

The Toyota Production System
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Media Format: Articles
Publish Date: 8/27/2010

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In this article from Toyota Georgetown website Toyota executive Teruyuki Minoura, then-managing director of global purchasing, Toyota Motor Corporation, shares the nuts and bolts of Toyota practice that go into it’s “thinking production system.”

The Joy of a Greenfield
Author: Womack, Jim
Media Format: E-letters
Publish Date: 8/24/2010
How Do I Clarify Lean Roles and Responsibilities?
Author: Ballé, Michael
Media Format: E-letters
Publish Date: 8/22/2010
Hospitalists: Lean Leaders for Hospitals
Author: Graban, Mark; Prachand, Amit
Summary
Media Format: Articles, Research
Publish Date: 8/20/2010

This article was published in the July/Aug 2010 edition of the Journal of Hospital Medicine, a publication geared toward hospitalists (MDs).

Authors Mark Graban and Amit Prachand provide commentary about the role of "respect of people" in data collection and improvement related to lean in a hospital. They draw a comparison that doctors and nurses should not be treated merely as "subjects" of observation by lean improvement efforts. Rather, they should be included as "scientists", directly engaged in the process themselves.

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