Lean Blog Audio — Measures, Incentives, Heart Attack Mortality, Driving
In this post, I look at the impact (or lack thereof) of targets, rankings, and incentives, when it comes to safe driving or PCI (angioplasty) procedures in a hospital cath …
Lean Blog Audio — Coming Soon– 4th Revised Ed. of “Lean Hospitals” (April Fool)
It’s time for another new, revised edition of my book! It was originally published in 2008 as Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction. — Support this podcast: …
Lean Blog Audio — Sad Bloomberg BusinessWeek Article on Auto Supplier Safety
A few of you sent me this article… and you were correct to think I would be interested:”Inside Alabama’s Auto Jobs Boom: Cheap Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs The South’s …
Lean Blog Audio — 10 Years of “L.A.M.E.”
It’s been 10 years since I first wrote about my awkward acronym L.A.M.E. Is it helpful to distinguish between true Lean principles and “Lean As Misguidedly Explained?” Will we see …
Lean Blog Audio — New Whitepaper: “#Lean for Doctors”
Today, I’m happy to share a link to a white paper that I co-authored for Catalysis (formerly the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value).The paper is titled: “Lean for Doctors.” Appropriately, …
Lean Blog Audio — #TBT: Don’t Blame the Kicker, Don’t Blame…
Today’s Post in&t;50 words: Lean thinkers don’t blame individuals who in a bad system, whether that’s a presenter at Oscars, a kicker in a football game, or a healthcare professional …
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 …