By Mark Graban
Each Saturday, I get an email newsletter from the UK-based site “Nursing Times.” They cover issues that are somewhat universal in healthcare, including patient safety, healthcare culture, nursing shortages, budget …
http://leanblog.org/audio125 The Spurs have had great players, but there’s a culture of teamwork and unselfishness. The Spurs (after learning their lesson with Dennis Rodman) have learned to draft and sign …
http://leanblog.org/audio124 I made a few tweaks to the content of the 3rd edition’s “first pages” based on some input from Jamie Bonini, vice president of the TSSC group within Toyota. …
This article posted anonymously on AllNurses.com has over one million views in the month since it first appeared:”Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!” It’s an “Open Letter to Hospital …
Engaging Staff in Improvement is Actually the Toyota Way, TooHere, I blogged about an article I read in Modern Healthcare that said, basically, Toyota isn’t innovative and maybe therefore healthcare …
I wrote a new piece for LinkedIn that I hope would be of interest to you even if you’re in healthcare. Why? It’s a story about what an organization does …
I get asked a lot, “How do you know if a hospital is truly ‘Lean?’”Nobody is ever perfect or “fully Lean,” but you could ask, “How do you know if …
Last year, Joe Swartz and I hosted a workshop at his organization, Franciscan St. Francis Health in Indianapolis. We called it“Kaizen Live!” and it was designed as an opportunity to …
Alternate title:“Lean is an Integrated System. Of Course Just Implementing Pieces Leads to Failure.” Throughout the 10 years that I’ve been involved with Lean healthcare efforts, I’ve heard multiple stories …
At KaiNexus, we’ve been fortunate to have a good relationship with Professor Ethan Burris, from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business. He has done a lot of research …
