LEAN INSIDER SPEAKS TO STILES ABOUT TRENDS

5/1/2008 — The Lean Insider, "a blog of news, research and trends on all things lean," spoke with Ted Stiles for its April 28th and April 30th postings about the growing demand in healthcare and other industries for lean experts.

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Excerpts from Lean Insider
4.28.2008
Lean Jobs: Good Prospects in Healthcare

Demand is growing in healthcare for people with lean expertise, and now may be a good time to move from manufacturing to healthcare.

That’s the word from Ted Stiles, director of executive search for Stiles Associates, a headhunting firm specializing in lean jobs.

“We’re seeing a lot of activity in hospitals,” Ted said when I spoke with him recently. “They are really setting up to be a long-term home for lean. There are a lot of systemic issues that are plaguing the hospital industry that are forcing them to look outside the box.”

Lin Stiles, the founder and CEO of the firm, mentioned the start of search activity in healthcare when I spoke with him a year ago...

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4.30.2008
Lean Jobs: Still Many Good Opportunities

Problems in the economy aren’t having much of an impact on demand for people with lean expertise. And there are good opportunities for such people in a number of industries.

That is what I am told by Ted Stiles, director of executive search for Stiles Associates, a headhunting firm specializing in lean jobs.

In my last post, I discussed how Ted sees strong demand for lean specialists in healthcare. (At Productivity Press, we agree that interest in lean is strong in healthcare, which is why we now offer a growing line of books for that market.)

But healthcare is not the only field with lean opportunities. Manufacturing is still the primary market for lean job candidates. Ted said manufacturing will account for probably 75 percent of all searches done by his firm this year (though that is down significantly from five years ago, when virtually all of the searches were in manufacturing).

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