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 and Professional Publication Award 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: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing
is outstanding.
- 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.
About LeanBlog.org: Mark Graban is a consultant, author, and speaker in the “lean healthcare” methodology, focused on improving quality and patient safety, improving access, reducing costs, and fully engaging healthcare professionals. He is also the Chief Improvement Officer for KaiNexus.
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Congratulations Mark on a well deserved recognition for an excellent book.!
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Excellent. Congratulations! I hope this helps more health care people to pick it up and read it.
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Congratulations!
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Congratulations!
And keep up with all the great work you are doing!
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Congrats, Mark.
I’d love to come check this event out, but $1300 is a bit out of my current price range.
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Congratulations Mark! Lean Hospitals is the Book for Healthcare! Way to go!
Janey G
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Congrats, Mark, although I am not surprised! Well-deserved.
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You earned and deserve this, Mark. Congratulations.
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Congratulations! You’ve created a great resource for those of us in Lean healthcare. Nice to see you get the recognition you deserve. Well done.
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Congratulations, Mark.
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Great job Mark! Keep it up!
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You Rock Mark!
I can’t say I’m the least bit surprised!
Lead the way mate! We’re all watching.
Bill
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Congratulations!
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