Lean Blog Audio — Toyota’s Japan Shutdown Lessons for Hospitals (and Others)
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 …
Lean Blog Audio — Is This The One Question That Determines If You’re
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 …
Lean Blog Audio — Kaizen Live! 2016 – See a Culture of Continuous Improvement
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 …
Lean Blog Audio — How Failed Lean Implementations Are Like a Bad
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 …
Lean Blog Audio — HBR Article on Avoiding the Futility of Suggestion Systems
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 …
Lean Blog Audio — Doctors Bash “Taylorism” and “Toyota Lean”
In the article posted today, Pamela Hartzband, M.D., and Jerome Groopman, M.D. (the later the author of the popular book How Doctors Think), rant about all sorts of things… some …
Lean Blog Audio — Wise Words from Mark Twain on Continuous Improvement
http://leanblog.org/audio115 A hat tip goes to Brian Buck for sharing this quote via email recently. Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, was a pithy and wise man. I didn’t remember this …
Lean Blog Audio — Where Do Hospitals Get the Idea that Lean is Only
I had a bit of a new year’s resolution about being positive and not fretting about organizations that don’t “get it” when it comes to Lean. But, resolutions are meant …
Lean Blog Audio — Dr. Don Berwick is “Stunned” By How Few
http://leanblog.org/audio113 This article, from December, was floating around social media the other day (hat tip to Paul Levy):Don Berwick Offers Health Care 9 Steps to End Era of ‘Complex Incentives’ …
Lean Blog Audio — “If the Employees are Upset, it’s Not Really Lean”
How is it that we have two realities out there in healthcare… in parallel, Lean is awesome and Lean is horrible. It depends on where you are, unfortunately. I had …