Tag: Shingo

Receiving the Shingo Research Award for “Healthcare Kaizen”

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Last night, my co-author Joe Swartz and I were able to formally receive the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award for our book Healthcare Kaizen. We learned...

Upcoming Webinars with Mark Graban, Shingo, and KaiNexus

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Here are a few upcoming free webinars that I am participating in... I hope you are interested and can attend: Mark Graban & Joe Swartz...

Key Takeaways from the 2013 Northeast Shingo Prize Conference

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Mark's Note: Today's post is by a regular guest contributor, Christina Kach. I was disappointed that I couldn't attend this year's event in Massachusetts,...

Shingo Research Award for “Healthcare Kaizen”!

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My co-author Joe Swartz and I are happy to announce that our book  Healthcare Kaizen  was named a recipient of the prestigious  Shingo Professional...

Dr. Deming’s “Role of a Manager of People”

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Dr. W. Edwards Deming's last book was The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education. In Chapter 5, Deming writes, "Transformation in any organization will...

Podcast #173 – Alan Gleghorn, CEO of Christie Clinic on Lean,...

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Listen My guest for podcast #173 is Alan Gleghorn, CEO of Christie Clinic in central Illinois. Alan is one of the keynote presenters at 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....

Join Me at the Northeast Shingo Prize Conference, Sept 25-26

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I hope you'll join me and a lot of Lean friends at the 2012 Northeast Shingo Prize Conference, to be held in Worcester, MA...

“On the Mend” Wins Shingo Award

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Congratulations to Dr. John Toussaint and Roger Gerard, co-authors of the outstanding book,  On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the...

Podcast #137 – Jerry Bussell Discusses the Jacksonville Lean Consortium

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Listen: Episode #137 is a chat with Jerry Bussell, founder of the Jacksonville Lean Consortium. I've met and talked with Jerry many times through LEI,...

Podcast #111, Jeffrey Liker on Toyota’s Challenges and His New Books

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Episode #111 brings us some time with Professor Jeffrey Liker from the University of Michigan, the well-known author of many books in the The...

The Toyota Texas Plant Tour – Concepts From the Visitor Center

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I'll start the week with another post about my tour of the TMMTX (Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas) plant in San Antonio. Today I'll write...