"Lean Hospitals" Wins Prestigious Shingo Prize

Great news, this is quite an honor and I'm very excited. My book, "Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction" has been awarded a Research Prize by the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence. I just found out today.

I'm thrilled to be given this prize, named in honor of Dr. Shigeo Shingo, one of the founders of the Toyota Production System. It's also an honor to included with such an illustrious list of previous Research Prize winners. I'm not sure yet who the other winners are, but I'll post it here when it's formally announced.

Hope to see some of you at the Conference and Awards Banquet in Nashville. I don't know my exact schedule for the week, but please do contact me if you're going to be there.

Related posts:

• Thanks to Matt May for the new review. Matt is a former Shingo Prize winner himself for The Elegant Solution: Toyota's Formula for Mastering Innovation and his upcoming book "In Pursuit of Elegance" is outstanding (coming out soon, my full review of it is coming soon).
  

• Congrats also to my fellow Productivity Press Shingo Prize winner for 2009: Understanding A3 Thinking: A Critical Component of Toyota's PDCA Management System
  
  
• Kevin Meyer has a post at Evolving Excellence that relates the Lean concepts to a recent commentary in the news about some big picture healthcare issues.
  

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