My guest for Episode #274 of the podcast is Jay Arthur, author of Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals: Improving Patient Safety, Patient Flow and the Bottom Line, Second Edition. To me, “Lean Sigma” is often a controversial topic… not because anything is wron…
This post in&t;50 words: Are there parallels between medicine and organizations when we look at the tension between heroism and the sometimes boring work of preventing problems and improving things? …
Lean sometimes gets, I think, an unfair rap that it’s only a method for incremental improvement. See this article, from the NEJM website, for example: “Limits of Lean — Transformative …
http://www.leanblog.org/audio176 I saw this article a few days ago in one of the larger healthcare industry trade publications:How One Woman Saved IU Health $54 Million The headline is misleading, as …
Joining me for Episode #273 of the podcast is David Veech, author of the new book Leadersights: Creating Great Leaders Who Create Great Workplaces. David is a senior lecturer in the Department of Management Sciences at Ohio State University and their Fis…
When I talk to organizations about Kaizen, or continuous improvement, there’s far too much self-defeating talk, where people say things like:”We’re not going to try this Kaizen process because our …
My guest for Episode #272 is Steve Thompson, Director of Patient Driven Supply Network initiatives for Cardinal Health, a global, integrated healthcare services and products company. He is also a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, dating back to his time …
Yesterday, the W. Edwards Deming Institute published the second in my series of three posts for them: “The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant.” Read more… http://www.leanblog.org/audio174 …
In my travels, I often meet people or visit organizations that say something like:”We’re doing Lean… we just call it Process Improvement.” They have a “Process Improvement” (PI) department, or …
http://www.leanblog.org/audio172 StoreSMART is partnering with me on this contest where you can win one of four sets of books, along with a selection of sample supplies that can help you …
