Lean 911

By Mark DeLuzio

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The Lean 911 Podcast is where you'll have a voice directly from the gemba. Host, Mark DeLuzio, President and CEO of Lean Horizons Consulting and the principal architect of the Danaher Business System, relies on his three decades of lean successes as well as his failures to answer your most challenging questions regarding your lean transformation.

Episode Date
Standards Written in Blood –  There May Be No Second Chance
Apr 01, 2026
The CFO vs. Lean: The Fight That Gets Lean Leaders Fired
Mar 15, 2026
The Illusion of Business “Logic” – Brilliant at Home, Illogical at Work
Mar 01, 2026
Book Review – Accidentally Aligned with Jason Neal
Feb 15, 2026
Are You Set Up to Win? – Find Out Here!
Feb 01, 2026
Stop Misusing the 2-Bin Kanban System
Jan 15, 2026
Let’s Make 2026 a Year of “Return to the Basics”
Jan 08, 2026
Where Are The Engineers?
Dec 15, 2025
Do You Really Understand the Toyota Production System House?
Nov 15, 2025
How Do You Price Your Product?
Nov 01, 2025
Stop Measuring Productivity
Oct 15, 2025
Institutionalized Waste from Mura and Muri
Oct 01, 2025
Lessons from the Danaher Business System Office III – Humble Errors: Mistakes We Made when Creating the Danaher Business System
Sep 15, 2025
Lessons from the Danaher Business System Office II – The Role and Structure of a Lean Office
Sep 01, 2025
Lessons from the Danaher Business System Office I – Do You Have a Purpose?
Aug 18, 2025
Problem Solving IX – Are you a Critical Thinker? The Mindset of a Problem Solver
Aug 01, 2025
How Compensation Systems Can Kill a Lean Transformation
Jul 15, 2025
Why the Danaher Business System Was Successful – The Answer May Surprise You!
Jul 01, 2025
The Problem with OEE and Absorption Accounting
Jun 15, 2025
Lean Leadership Mistakes That Stall Change (Webinar Replay Ask Two Marks Anything)
Jun 01, 2025
Problem Solving VIII – Defining the Span of Control to Enable Problem Solving
May 15, 2025
Why Don’t Your Leaders Listen to You?
May 01, 2025
Mark’s Favorite Lean Financial Metric – Free Cash Flow as % of Net Income
Apr 15, 2025
Death by Point Kaizen – Why You Need Kaikaku
Apr 01, 2025
The Games We Play With On-Time Delivery Metrics
Mar 15, 2025
Target Costing – Make Money on Job #1
Mar 01, 2025
Why Aren’t There More Value Stream Organizations?
Feb 15, 2025
Jerry Wright – Book Review: “The Insanity Trap – What Your MRP Consultant Won’t Tell You”
Feb 01, 2025
Griselda Abousleman – The Power of Optimism 
Jan 15, 2025
How Do You Define a Defect?
Jan 01, 2025
The Productivity Hysteria
Dec 15, 2024
Death by Lean Audits
Dec 01, 2024
Generational Yokoten
Nov 15, 2024
Respect for People with Nathan Corliss
Nov 01, 2024
The Way of Lean Investing with Cliff Ransom
Oct 15, 2024
The Poison of Metrics – With Jon Boucher
Oct 01, 2024
The 7 Flows – With Jon Boucher
Sep 15, 2024
Why The Theory of Constraints (TOC) Was Not Included in the Creation of DBS
Sep 01, 2024
The Early Days at Danaher with Art Byrne
Aug 15, 2024
How to Create a Lean Culture – With Art Byrne
Aug 01, 2024
Why You Need a Lean Sensei
Jul 15, 2024
Art Byrne – The Lean Answer Book
Jul 01, 2024
Mixed Model Production II – Implementation
Jun 15, 2024
Mixed Model Production I – Introduction
Jun 01, 2024
Destructive Lean “Leadership”
May 15, 2024
On-Time Delivery Metrics – Measure to Promise or to Request Date?
May 01, 2024
Chairs – To Sit or Not to Sit
Apr 15, 2024
Problem Solving VII – The Problem with Problem Escalation
Apr 01, 2024
Hide Oba – Lean TPS Basics and lessons from his Father, Hajime Oba
Mar 15, 2024
Hajime Oba – His life and His Journey – Radiating The Toyota Production System Throughout the Globe
Mar 01, 2024
Whatever Happened to Kaizen?
Feb 15, 2024
3P and Moonshine with Jon Boucher
Feb 01, 2024
Basic Lean Humor – GAN AWAY
Jan 15, 2024
Lean Administrative Processes with Joe Rutz
Jan 01, 2024
My 10 Rules of a Process
Dec 15, 2023
My View on 3rd Party Awards and Certifications
Dec 01, 2023
Problem Solving VI: Trust But Verify – Challenge the Status Quo
Nov 15, 2023
Problem Solving V: Types of Problems
Nov 01, 2023
Problem Solving IV: Leading and Lagging Indicators
Oct 15, 2023
Problem Solving III: How to Define a Problem
Oct 01, 2023
Problem Solving II: Solving Problems at the Lowest Level
Sep 15, 2023
Problem Solving I: Problem Fixing vs. Problem Solving
Sep 01, 2023
Daily Management
Aug 15, 2023
Kaizen III – Anatomy of a Kaizen via The Report Out
Aug 01, 2023
Kaizen II – Pitfalls
Jul 15, 2023
Kaizen I – Rules
Jul 01, 2023
Perspectives – VA vs NVA
Jun 15, 2023
Accounting For Lean
Jun 01, 2023
Lean Accounting
May 15, 2023
My Brief Encounter With Greatness
May 01, 2023
What Happened to the “Fast” in Fast Food?
Apr 15, 2023
Analyzing Capital Expenditures from a Lean Perspective
Mar 15, 2023
Benchmarking and The Rubik’s Cube Through a Lean Lens
Mar 01, 2023
TAKT Time
Feb 15, 2023
Lean and Trust
Feb 08, 2023
DBS vs. TPS
Jan 13, 2023
Kanban
Jan 13, 2023
Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED)
Jan 13, 2023
Standard Work
Jan 13, 2023
Lean Mindset
Jan 13, 2023