Monthly Archives: September 2009
USA Today Features Lean in Hospitals
Hospital CEOs manage staff time, inventory to cut costs - USATODAY.com
It's nice to see a major publication covering Lean and, especially, Lean in healthcare....
1,000,000 Page Views!!
Believe it or not, the Lean Blog will have its 5th birthday in January, 2010.
I just stumbled across the fact that, since January 2005,...
Neither Lean Nor Green: People Who Send Me Stuff I Didn’t Ask For
Channeling my inner Andy Rooney...
I try to be a lean thinker and a lean guy. I'm all for reducing and eliminating waste. Where that...
Starbucks Pricing on Cost or Value??
Starbucks boosts prices on some beverages - USATODAY.com
There are no direct "lean" fingerprints on the news stories about Starbucks adjusting their prices, but let's...
An Update on Lean in a New Zealand Emergency Dept
You might remember a 2008 blog piece about early Lean efforts in New Zealand hospital (Dunedin hospital), where the primary aim was reducing...
Q&A #3 – Michael Balle, "The Lean Manager" – Medication Errors
I recently invited questions for Michael Balle, the author of the Shingo Prize winning book The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround. He...
College Colors Day
Keeping things a bit off topic and relaxed for a holiday weekend in the U.S., today is "College Colors" day. In hindsight, the picture...
So Where Did Scott Go?
If you had been following Scott McDuffee's weekly "Lean Leap to Healthcare" posts that documented his attempts to transition from "lean manufacturing" into "lean...
Probably Not Meant to be an Illustration of “5S”
I was watching the NBC web series (via iTunes podcasts) called "Ctrl" the other day (I'm a big fan of Tony Hale from the...
Lean Out Your Communications, the Next Lean Frontier
Mark's note: I'm happy to introduce a new guest blogger, Liz Guthridge. She is very active on Twitter and does a lot to educate...
"A different and hopeful way of thinking about" healthcare
Below is a guest post from fellow author and Lean Healthcare practitioner, Naida Grunden.Her book, The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare: Improving Patient Care...
