Lean Blog Audio — Personal Kaizen: How I Reduced Effort…
In today’s post, I write about how Kaizen starts with you. I share some examples of “personal Kaizen,” including the way I’ve streamlined my call scheduling process, for my benefit …
Lean Blog Audio — Learning & Emulating Without Copying Blindly from…
While I’m writing here about Northwestern men’s basketball learning from Duke (without copying everything), the same ideas apply if you’re Ford learning from Toyota or a hospital learning from ThedaCare. …
Lean Blog Audio — I Was Asked to Share “Pet Peeves” About Lean (and Lean Sigma)
Thanks to GoLeanSixSigma.com for asking me some questions for a discussion that they’ve posted on their website. — Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lean-blog-audio/support
Lean Blog Audio — If a Surgeon or Hospital Puts Quantity over Quality…
Today’s Post in&t;50 Words: I get worked up about labeling a troubled surgical department as “a factory,” but there are far more important issues of patient safety and hospital culture …
Lean Blog Audio — The Advice about #Lean That Your Hospital CEO Should Be Getting
Art Byrne’s latest book, The Lean Turnaround Action Guide, has a lot of great tips that he’s trying to share, CEO to CEO. How many CEOs are reading this book …
Lean Blog Audio — Registration is Open! “Kaizen Live!” at Franciscan
Registration is now open for our “Kaizen Live!” event, where you can visit Franciscan St. Francis Health in Indianapolis to see what a “culture of continuous improvement” is like in …
Lean Blog Audio — Lessons Ford & the UAW Learned in Japan in 1981 Still Apply
Today’s Post in&t;50 Words: I continue sharing documents from the Don Ephlin library archive. What did Ford and the UAW learn when they visited Japan in 1981? Many of the …
Lean Blog Audio — #TBT: My Reflections on Dr. Deming’s Notes…
Today’s post points to my guest blog post for the W. Edwards Deming Institute: Reflections on Dr. Deming’s Hospital Notes – What Has Changed Since 1990? Why do the same …
Lean Blog Audio — The Heroism of Incremental CarIe & Incremental Improvement
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 Blog Audio — Lean as Redesign and Continuous Improvement,
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 …