Tag: blog

Management Web Sites and Resources

• Gemba Panta Rei by Jon Miller
  Great blog on lean manufacturing topics by Jon Miller.

• Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog by John Hunter
  Blog by John Hunter on many topics to to improve the management of organizations, including: Deming, lean manufacturing, agile software development, evidence based decision making, customer focus, innovation, six sigma, systems thinking, leadership, psychology, ...

• Lean Manufacturing Blog by Mark Graban
  News, articles and podcasts on the the lean manufacturing with a focus on health care by Mark Graban.

• Daily Kaizen by Lee Fried
  Blog by Lee Fried tracking the journey of a world-class health care system as it continuously improves to serve its members. He works for Group Health Cooperative non-profit care system in Seattle, Washington.

• Jamie Flinchbaugh by Jamie Flinchbaugh
  Blog on lean culture, transformational leadership, and entrepreneurial excellence. Jamie is a consultant and co-author of The Hitchhiker.s Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road.

• Evolving Excellence by Kevin Meyer, Bill Waddell
  Excellent and opinionated blog focused on lean manufacturing by Kevin Meyer and Bill Waddell.

• Gemba Tales
  Blog by Mark Hamel exploring experiences (some successful, some not) of the author and other lean practitioners and shared for the purpose of providing insight into the application of lean concepts.

• Wally Bock's Three Star Leadership Blog
  Wally Bock writes this blog to give bosses at any level - insight, information, and pointers to resources to do a better job and live a better life.

• Work Matters by Bob Sutton
  

• Signal vs. Noise
  Blog on design, business, experience, simplicity, the web, culture and software development.

• Timeback Management by Daniel Markovitz
  Blog by Dan Markovitz on lean thinking and how managers can properly allocate their time.

• Performance Improvement
  Blog by Glenn Whitfield focused on business management, lean, strategy, and related topics.

• Lean Six Sigma for Law Enforcement
  Blog by Sergeant Billy Wilkerson (with the Jacksonville, Florida Shefiff's Office).

• Beyond Lean
  Blog by industrial engineering with the theme of reflecting on lean management and the idea that business units should be educated on lean thinking and principles.

• Fashion Incubator
  Blog by Kathleen Fasanella with posts on lean manufacturing in the production of fashion and clothes.

• Learning about Lean
  "I started writing Learning About Lean in September 2002. It chronicles my efforts to implement the Toyota Production System in now two different orginizational settings." by Joe Ely

• Shmula by Peter Abilla
  "This blog is my take on technology, business, operations, The Toyota Production System / Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Queueing Theory, operations research, building software, the customer experience (especially ethnography and design thinking and word-of-mouth marketing)"

• Lean Journey
  "My Lean Journey started about 10 years ago with a career change from R&D to manufacturing. I started this Blog to share lessons along the way and chronicle 'My Lean Journey in the Quest for True North'. With so much emphasis on continuous improvement we often miss the true teaching of TPS (Thinking People System). Lean is a 'Learning' process so sharing your lessons and opinions are welcome."

• Be More Careful by Mark Graban
  A Collection of workplace signs and posters that don't get to the root cause.

• Gotta Go Lean by Jeff Hajek
  "The Gotta Go Lean Blog focuses on Lean at the front line. We help managers and employees work together to make Lean more productive for the company, and jobs more satisfying for workers."

• How to implement Lean Thinking in a Business by Tracey Richardson
  Blog by a trainer for Toyota and consultant.

• Got Boondoggle by Mike Wroblewski
  "My lean experiences include learning directly from the original lean leaders including Dr. Shigeo Shingo. As a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, I believe quality is a cornerstone of all improvement actions. By sharing these experiences and insights, my hope is that you may benefit on your lean journey."

• PQ Systems
  Software and services provider related to SPC tools. The site includes a blog.

• Building a Great Company by Gregg Stocker
  "Thoughts and examples - good and bad - on the state of business and how to improve competitiveness and quality of life for everybody."

• Awfully Simple
  Blog by Gede Manggala in Indonesia. "I am a fan of simplicity and love to play with data to find simple solution for my life through better understanding of data and human behavior (who, generally, are not always rational)."

• Management Innovation eXchange
  "an open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. The premise: while "modern" management is one of humankind's most important inventions, it is now a mature technology that must be reinvented for a new age. Current management practices emphasize control, discipline and efficiency above all else — and that's a problem. To thrive in the 21st century, organizations must be adaptable, innovative, inspiring and socially accountable. That will require a genuine revolution in management principles and practices."

• Lean Simulations
  "The focus of this site is Lean training material, ready-to-use and free. I am searching the web for lean simulations, lean games, presentations, and real world examples. Please feel free to email me your material and I will link to it or post it."

• Lean Edge by Michael Ballé, H. Thomas Johnson, Daniel T. Jones, Art Smalley, Steven Spear, Jeffrey Liker, Mike Rother
  "Lean management is a method to dramatically improve business performance by teaching people how to improve their own processes. The two main dimensions of lean management are continuous process improvement (going and seeing problems at the source, challenging operations and improving step by step) and respect for people (developing and engaging employees by developing teamwork, problem solving and respect for customers, employees and all other partners). ... The aim of the discussion [on the site] is to share different points of view and to collectively build a vision of lean management."

• Personal Kanban
  "Despite our best intentions, life has a way of becoming complicated. People, tasks, responsibilities, deadlines, and even recreation all compete for our attention. The human brain however, simply does not respond well to the stress of juggling multiple priorities... here are only two real rules with Personal Kanban: 1. Visualize your work 2. Limit your work-in-progress"

• Steven Spear by Steven Spear
  Five-time winner of the Shingo Prize for research excellence and a senior lecturer at MIT and former assistant professor at Harvard. A senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, he is the author of numerous articles appearing in academic and trade publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times.

• Lean HR
  "A discussion of using Lean tools and technology to drive change and streamline processes throughout the HR value stream." by Dwane Lay

• Designing Kaizen
  Website for lean management trainer with blog.

• Deming From the Bottom Up
  "What would happen if a front-line worker 'accidentally stumbled upon the writings of Dr W. Edward Deming, and became convinced that Dr Deming's basic tenants if pursued would result in a quality organization from top to bottom. This blog will demonstrate the effect of DMM on that individual." By Dan Lang

• Effective Innovation by Bill Kappele
  Blog by Bill Kappele on design of experiments and statistics.

• People and Systems
  Blog by José María Raventos (in Spanish).

• qBlog
  Blog by the Office of Quality Management at National University of Singapore.

• Full Speed Ahead by Karn Bulsuk
  Thailand based blog with a focus on the Toyota way.

• Agile consulting
  Insights on Agile, Lean, Kanban, and Flow by Jeff Anderson and Alexis Hui.

• Chief Happiness Officer
  Blog by Alexander Kjerulf. "Work can be energizing, meaningful, inspiring and plain old fun. When it is, we enjoy work more, we enjoy life more and we get more done on the job."

• Managers Are Heroes
  "In our world, the Manager is the Hero. Bringing justice to the world: Decreasing Conflict, Increasing Productivity – and Enhancing the Lives of all that cross their path... This blog is written by Mike Brown – who like all of you – is a manager, fighting the good fight."

• System Thinking and Lean for Services
  

• Startup Lessons Learned by Eric Ries
  By the author of the very popular book: Lean Startup.

• Rural Renegade
  Blog discussing Deming's management ideas.

• Thinkovate
  Blog discussing Goldratt and systems thinking ideas.

• Sabu Sense by Lew Rhodes
  Web site of Lew Rhodes with numerous articles in addition to blog posts. Lew has a long history in education so much of the material focuses in that area.

• Lean Blitz
  Looks at lean ideas related specifically to sports organizations and sports small businesses

• Agile Manufacturing
  Blog by George Bohan, keeping you informed on lean and agile manufacturing.

• Not Running a Hospital by Paul Levy
  Author is a former hospital CEO and an "advocate for patient-driven care, eliminating preventable harm, transparency of clinical outcomes, and front-line driven process improvement."

• Agile Six Sigma
  "I'm going to use this blog to share and capture ideas on quality - with a primary focus on application of Lean Six Sigma in a Technology setting."

• The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog by John Hunter
  

• Karen's blog by Karen Martin
  

• Gemba Walkabout by Mike Stoecklein
  “Gemba walk” (lean thinking term) to go to the actual place where value is added + “walkabout” (Australian aborigine) a short period of wandering bush life engaged as an occasional interruption of regular work.

• Manufacturing Leadership Center by Bill Waddell
  Bill Waddell shares his knowledge, opinions, experience and ideas to point out the failures of companies, organizations, and individuals in the manufacturing industry while also lauding those that understand true excellence.

• Quantum Shifting
  Vision: People all over the world enjoy meaningful and satisfying work by thinking bigger about themselves, their work and the world.

• Improving Police by David C. Couper
  By the former chief of police of Madison, Wisconsin.