Tag: Video

Lean Lessons for Healthcare from a Boeing 737 Factory Video

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Podcaster Cali Lewis (a fellow DFW-area Texan) hosts a show called GeekBeat.tv, where she normally highlights new consumer tech gadgets and nerdy robots from...

Audio Story w Pictures: Lean at Virginia Mason Medical Center &...

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Here is a video from the St. Louis Beacon (actually, an NPR-style audio story with pictures) about Lean healthcare at Virginia Mason Medical Center,...

Lean Healthcare Design Video Series – Part 4, Continuous Improvement

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Here is the long overdue Part 4 of our video discussion series about Lean Healthcare Design, featuring Miguel Burbano, an architect and Senior Vice...

PDSA Video from IHI

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It's alphabet soup Saturday, as this IHI PDSA video comes from a PhD, Robert Lloyd. A great basic overview (or refresher course) for anyone...

Checklists Promoted and Debated on “Grey’s Anatomy”

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It's my second post about the TV show Grey's Anatomy, the first being "McDreamy" Fights the Blame Game on "Grey's Anatomy." Each post makes...

New DVD – “Thinking Lean at ThedaCare: Strategy Deployment”

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Sorry for what might seem like a very promotional post, but I'm happy to share some details with you about a project I've been...

Fox News Channel Understands “Lean” Better than the WSJ

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On Friday, there was yet another Wall Street Journal article about Lean (fixating as they always do on the "Just In Time" component). The...

Lessons from a Crazy Taxi Ride: Improving Processes in Unpredictable Environments

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When I was leaving the recent Shingo Prize conference, last week, I had what can only be described as a taxi ride from hell...

Local News Stories About a Healthcare Value Leaders Network Visit to...

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Recently, a group of leaders from the third cohort in the Healthcare Value Leaders Network visited Mercy Medical Center in Mason City, Iowa for...

Weekend Fun: The Management Methods, They Are a-Changin’

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Fans of Bob Dylan and Mike Rother's book Toyota Kata will appreciate this song especially:

Funny ‘Family Guy’ Clip that Illustrates Disdain for Manufacturing; Plus a...

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Friday, I blogged about a WIRED Magazine piece by Joel Johnson that was pretty disrespectful of manufacturing, in general, as he wrote that "every...

Toyota’s Video Showing How TPS Helps Healthcare; Recent NASA Report Exonerates...

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Toyota has produced a series of videos that show how their innovations, technology and otherwise, have benefitted people outside of automobiles. One video that caught...