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 …
Lean Blog Audio — Improving Safety & Quality Matters, but…
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 …
Lean Blog Audio — You Don’t Build a Culture of Continuous Improvement by…
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 …
Lean Blog Audio — 2nd Post for the Deming Institute Blog
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 …
Lean Blog Audio — Lean is Not Just Process Improvement
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 …
Lean Blog Audio — Contest: Win a Set of #Lean & Patient Safety Books
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 …
Lean Blog Audio — Marie Osmond and The Excuses for Not Getting Lean
It’s a weight loss program called “Lean 13.” It’s the everyday use of the word “lean,” as in thinner, that has nothing to do with the Lean methodology and the …
Lean Blog Audio — Better Metrics & “Understanding Variation”
My favorite book, as I’ve written about before, is not a “Lean book” — it’s Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos by Donald J. Wheeler, PhD. It might look …