Change is Good Posts
To look forward we need to first look back. From 2008-2012 we saw big pharma collide creating larger companies. Genentech-Roche, Novartis-Alcon, Pfizer-Wyeth and GlaxoSmithKline-Human Genome Sciences just to name a few. During...
What lean business knowledge can we learn from a fictitious doctor that travels through space and time in a shiny police box? Let’s discuss.
Doctor Who is a Time Lord but he doesn’t waste any time...
We’ve finished the future state map on how to fix the entire system but it’s going to take us at least a year, involve a ton of man hours and cost a lot of money. It also involves every department and it’s going to triple...
When you shake hands with someone there’s a physical acknowledgement between both persons that they actually met each other. A hand wave can be a random one way communication between one person or several. Perhaps even no one i...
By saying “Action Hero” you might be envisioning Angelina Jolie as “Laura Croft” or Jason Statham in just about anything he’s ever done but I’m talking about the lean action hero of the workplace.
Now that you have Carl Douglas’s or Cee-Lo Green’s “Kung Fu Fighting” stuck in your head let’s talk about if you’ve been acting like a true Lab Kung Fu Master.
My lab Kung Fu is much bet...
As we move into the new year now is the time to look around your surroundings and examine where and how you can effect positive change in your own environment.
Mahatma Gandhi said “You must be the change you want to see...
Inventory is one of the primary wastes in lean thinking and is also the hardest for people to change their mindset about. I’ve compiled my list of the top 5 items you need to know in order to understand the downfall of having Invento...
The calendar is a global countermeasure.
There are 365 days in a year except every 4 years there are 366 days. The leap year was a countermeasure developed in 45 BC as part of the Julian calendar. It was created t...
If you don’t know where you are or where you’re going then why are you surprised when you get lost?
In today’s world we KNOW the benefits of Google Maps or having a GPS in our cars so why aren’t we us...
From a high level perspective a Quality Management System (QMS) is great but to the lab workers it’s more like a pile of “red tape” that stops them from doing or improving their work. Here’s what you can do to put t...
I’ve had many a discussion over the past week with my colleagues about what makes a lean system work? The answer every time comes back to a culture of leadership...
In any large organisation there is the tendency to break a process down to specialised groups to work on samples. The problem is that these groups forget the importance of communicating with each other and operate independently on their own...
Where it all started
Most of us started in a lab with one or two other techs labeling our tubes with a fine tip Sharpie marker and using an internal code that made it understandable to our small group of people.
