Monthly Archives: July 2009
Nice Lean Healthcare Overview in Healthcare Journal
Leading Lean: A Canadian Healthcare Leader's Guide :: Vol. 12 No. 3 2009 :: Healthcare Quarterly :: Longwoods PublishingToday, I'll share a link I've...
“Lean Won’t Work Here… We’re Different!” Is That Really True?
I'm sure anybody who has done any work with Lean has heard these words said in one form or another, often prefaced with a...
Random Lean Thoughts – July 13
Today's blog post will be just a bunch of random thoughts. For one, I just got back from London last night after a whirlwind...
The New GM Is No Longer the "Leaner" GM?
I've complained about this before, it hardly fazes me any more when the media say that GM is going to be "leaner" in the...
I’d Like to "5S" the Wimbledon TV Broadcast Screen
Hello from jolly old England. I'm in London for the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit being put on today by Daniel T. Jones of the...
LeanBlog Podcast #70 – Tamra Kaplan, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
Episode #70 is an interview with Tamra Kaplan, the COO of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. We talk about the lean transformation work being...
Medical Errors in Hospitals Still Occur at Alarming Rate
It has been over 10 years since the publication of the Institute of Medicine's study on preventable medical errors: To Err Is Human: Building...
Lean Guy Drove a Prius For Two Years And…
... I wasn't impressed in the least. In my previous role as a consultant, I was given a company vehicle to use, even though...
Great Op-Ed from Paul O’Neill on REALLY Improving Healthcare
Op-Ed Contributor - Health Care's Infectious Losses - NYTimes.com
FINALLY, a major contribution to the discussion about how we need to improve the quality of...
Do Ideas Go "Poof" at Starbucks?
By Mark Graban:I'm always fascinated by Starbucks. For one, I'm a regular customer and Starbucks has a reputation for hiring pretty educated people as...
I Sometimes Sort of Hate My Book’s Title, I Think
Another interesting discussion that came up during my trip to The Netherlands... my book's title: Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction (see...
Bad News not Flowing Either Direction at GM?
Last week, I blogged about an episode where bad news wasn't flowing up in Boeing (or, it's part of a pattern).
In my Sunday morning...
