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Misplaced Milkshake Blenders & Unclear Water Dispensers

by Mark Graban on March 10, 2014 · 1 comment

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Last week was the annual LEI Lean Transformation Summit (see my notes here).

There were many inspiring stories, but are always reminders that it’s not always a Lean world around us.

Tom Ehrenfeld (who blogged about the two days of the Summit here and here) shared a crazy story from his trip to the airport on his way home (shared below with his permission):

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Mark Graban 2011 Smaller Misplaced Milkshake Blenders & Unclear Water Dispensers leanAbout LeanBlog.org: Mark Graban is a consultant, author, and speaker in the “lean healthcare” methodology. Mark is author of the Shingo Award-winning books Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, as well as the new Executive Guide to Healthcare Kaizen. Mark is also the VP of Innovation and Improvement Services for KaiNexus.


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Notes & My Short Talk from the #Lean Transformation Summit, #Lean14

by Mark Graban Mar 6, 2014 2 comments

It’s been fun attending the annual Lean Transformation Summit (produced by LEI). Today is Day 2. I took some notes from Day 1 and Tom Ehrenfeld has been “live blogging” it a bit on the LEI site. Tom also took and posted a picture of me in my spiffy “Lean Geek” t-shirt. LEI had a […]

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Some People Who Are Making a Difference for Patient Safety

by Mark Graban Mar 5, 2014 5 comments

This week is National Patient Safety Awareness Week. See my thoughts on this from 2012. Every week should be National Patient Safety IMPROVEMENT Week, as the problem is that dire. But, it’s great to try to bring to light the risks of our modern healthcare system in the U.S. and other countries. I often point […]

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