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 …
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 …