Learn how Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) is striving to be the "best at getting better".

The Toyota Production System could make evidence-based processes used in children's disease prevention  more efficient. (Prevention Action)

Companies overlook the single biggest opportunity they have to go green -- using lean management for  simplifying, streamlining, and optimizing processes. (Exchange)

Pixar, famus for animated hits such as "Toy Story," “Finding Nemo,” and “Cars,” based at least part of its managemetn system on Toyota's lean management practices. Inspired by Toyota's attention to soliciting employee feedback, Pixar directors executives decided to have employees show unfinished work to each other at daily meetings.  The idea is to surface and solve problems before they become crises. Directors are not obliged to act on the feedback, however, peer review contrbuted to the story line of the hit “Up.”

Whether you are fixing a manufacturing or office value stream, lean is “about the creation of a problem solving and fast-learning culture,” said Jim Luckman, a faculty member at the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute.  Luckman who has been a manufacturing plant manager, an R&D center manager, and head of a small startup company, recently discussed how to apply value-stream mapping in nonmanufacturing value streams with Business901 podcast host Joe Dager. One of the workshops Luckman teaches for LEI is on Value-Stream Mapping for the Office and Service