By Mark Graban
I was happy to see an engineer (Chemical Engineering) and a General Motors leader, Alicia Boler Davis, on the cover of the Northwestern University alumni magazine.See this profile and story: …
In the Lean approach, we don’t call people idiots or dummies. We don’t say, or shouldn’t say, things like “idiot proofing” or “dummy proofing.”There’s an old Toyota story about how …
http://www.leanblog.org/audio159 I do a lot of work across the U.S., but I’ve also been very fortunate to work with hospitals, clinics, and health systems around the world over the past …
A few weeks ago, I saw this announcement about Dean Gruner, MD, the second CEO to lead ThedaCare during their Lean journey:Dr. Dean Gruner, ThedaCare President and CEO, Announces Retirement …
I was happy to see this announcement the other day:UCSF to Train Residents in Lean Management and Process Improvement From the announcement: “UC San Francisco will train medical residents and …
You might remember the hubbub (a kerfuffle?) over the NEJM opinion piece written by Dr. Jerome Groopman and Dr. Pamela Hartzband. See my first post about their article. There are …
More notes and discussion about my trip to China. http://leanblog.org/audio155 — Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lean-blog-audio/support
http://leanblog.org/audio154 Continuing from Part 1 of my post about my first day of my first China trip, I’d like to share more about the Lean healthcare conference and presentations that …
Audio courtesy of Quality Digest Live — see www.QualityDigest.com for more info and http://www.leanblog.org/audio153 for the link to the article referenced. — Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lean-blog-audio/support
We’ll probably also talk about this article that was published yesterday on QualityDigest.com:”Lean Is About Quality, Not Just Speed or Efficiency… in Factories or in Hospitals” It might ruffle some …
