http://leanblog.org/audio53 In my first post about the on-site Kaizen learning experience at Franciscan St. Francis Health, an event I came to call “Kaizen Live,” I wrote about some of the …
http://leanblog.org/audio52 There’s been a back and forth of views about the state of pediatric emergency medicine recently in the Wall St Journal.Let me start first, actually, with the more recent …
Following up on yesterday’s post on seemingly successful experiments with ACOs, here’s another article, from HBR, on “safety huddles” in healthcare:”How Every Hospital Should Start the Day” — Support this …
You might be considered “wonky” for enjoying the topics discussed here at LeanBlog.org… but that’s fine. This is a safe environment for being wonky about Lean and improvement.From Vox.com, Sarah …
http://leanblog.org/audio49 I was quoted in two articles that appeared in “Today’s Hospitalist”:”Discharging Mr. Wood: Time to get serious about waste” and “Standardized work: Improving quality by reducing practice variation.” Reducing …
http://leanblog.org/audio48 On April 22 and 23, I collaborated with Joe Swartz and a countless number of his colleagues to host 24 visitors from different health systems (and an Indiana state …
http://leanblog.org/audio47 One of the many things I admire about W. Edwards Deming is how hard he worked into his 90s. He must have had “pride and joy” in his own …
Chris Van Gorder, CEO of Scripps Health in California, wrote this article in HBR back in January: “A No-Layoffs Policy Can Work, Even in an Unpredictable Economy.” — Support this …
Forgive me for being a bit of an Industrial Engineering geek here in this post. After all, my bachelor’s degree is in Industrial Engineering, even though I sometimes get called …
Dr. W. Edwards Deming advised against relying on slogans and posters as a way of trying to improve quality.Point 10 of his famed 14 points said: Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and …
