Monthly Archives: March 2010
Guest Post: Expanding Horizons of Communication
Mark's Note: Don't know Liz? Check out her Lean Blogger profile video on YouTube.
One world is getting bigger—at least from my vantage point as...
My Lean Healthcare Talk at MIT, 2009
Last July, I was fortunate to be invited to give a guest lecture at the MIT EdNet / Lean Advancement Initiative's Lean Healthcare Academy.
Here...
A Pharmacist’s Jail Cell Interview – What Good Does Blame Do?
Here's one to ponder and comment on - does putting a pharmacist in jail for six months and ruining his career and life do...
A Lean and Green Survey from the UK
One of my colleagues from across the Pond, James Marsh at Sheffield Hallam University, is currently researching his PhD exploring Lean Six Sigma and...
Another CEO Talk: “Can I Say That?”
The final keynote talk at the recent Society for Health Systems / ASQ Healthcare conference was given by Dr. Barry Silbaugh, a former hospital...
Video Interview with LEI’s Jim Womack
Jim Womack visited Lantech, a manufacturer of stretch wrappers and other packaging equipment. While there and visiting the "gemba," Jim was interviewed about Lean,...
VIBCO Helping Spread the Word About Lean in Healthcare
After two visits and gemba walks, I've become a big fan of the Lean work that's taking place at VIBCO, a manufacturer in Rhode...
President Obama at “the Gemba”
Keeping things light on a Saturday... New York Magazine has a funny photo story series of President Obama on tours of different factories and...
A Lean Guy Goes to #HIMSS10 Part 1
I'm about conferenced out! First was the excellent SHS/ASQ conference on healthcare operations improvement (read my posts), then the HIMSS conference focused on heathcare...
An Industrial Engineer as Hospital CEO
Last Friday at SHS/ASQ, I heard a talk by Michael Riordan, the CEO of the Greenville Hospital System in South Carolina.
He is one of...
How “Training With Industry” Helped in This Hospital Laboratory
On Friday, I co-presented at the Society for Health Systems / ASQ Healthcare Division conference in Atlanta. It was the first time this was...
