Monthly Archives: September 2012

Guest Post: Weekend Fun – The Post That Goes PING!

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Mark's note: Today's guest post is by Brian Buck, a fellow lean healthcare  practitioner  who regularly blogs at "Improve With Me." Following my tendency...

Podcast #158 – Art Byrne, Former CEO of Wiremold on The Lean Turnaround

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My guest for podcast #158 is Art Byrne, author of the new book The Lean Turnaround: How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create...

Guest Post: Safety – Why I Stopped Kidding Myself

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Mark's note: Today kicks off my vacation and a stretch of guest posts that will run in this spot through October 12 (with the...

Notes from the 2012 Northeast Shingo Prize Conference, Day One

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Yesterday was an outstanding day at the Northeast Shingo Prize Conference in Worcester, Massachusetts - my first time attending and speaking at this event....

Can SPC Show if American Airlines Pilots are Staging a “Sick Out”?

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As a frequent flyer on American Airlines and a former DFW-area resident, I pay a lot of attention to the troubled airline. American is...

Stuff I’m Reading: September 21, 2012

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The list of stuff I've read and wanted to blog about has grown... that inventory becomes this post. Here are links to some varied...

Brilliant LEGO Visualization of Healthcare Flow (or Lack Thereof)

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Thanks go to Hakan Forss, from Sweden, who sent me a link to an article he wrote about Lean, waste, and patient flow. He...

7 Things Leaders Need to do to Institute a Culture of Continuous Improvement

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Thanks to ExecutiveInsight for publishing my article: "Instituting a Culture of Continuous Improvement:  Kaizen encourages low-impact improvements that can have a big payoff for...

“Lean Management” Debated in the Washington Gubernatorial Race

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, with the help of Michael George, tried injecting talk of so-called "Lean Six Sigma" into the 2012 presidential race,...

Improving “Door to Balloon” Times and Patient Care – in Some Hospitals, Why Not...

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Recently, the Wall Street Journal put some focus on the issue of so-called "door to balloon" times in our hospitals. "Door to balloon" is...

Weekend Fun: LeanMemes.com #LeanMeme Contest Winners

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When I kicked off the "Lean Memes" contest last month, I had no idea what I was starting... I figured I'd get a handful...

“L.A.M.E.” in the News; These Three Articles Get Lean Wrong

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As the creator of the admittedly awkward L.A.M.E. acronym (meaning Lean As Mistakenly Explained or Lean As Misguidedly Executed), one burden is that I...