Award Recipients – The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence – shingoprize.org

The full list of winners has been released. Congratulations to all! It’s personally quite an honor to be included in this list.

• Steven J. Spear: Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition and How Great Companies Can Catch Up and Win

• John Shook: Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor, and Lead
• Professor Peter Hines; Dr. Pauline Found; Gary Griffiths; and Richard Harrison – Staying Lean: Thriving, Not Just Surviving

• Jeff Liker and Michael Hoseus: Toyota Culture: The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way
• Durwood Sobek and Art Smalley: Understanding A3 Thinking: A Critical Component of Toyota’s PDCA Management System
• Mark Graban: Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction

Hope to see some of you where at the Shingo Prize conference and banquet.

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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