Monthly Archives: February 2012
Hello from the SHS Conference & a Question for the Readers
Hello from Las Vegas, where Monday is Day 2 of the outstanding Society for Health Systems annual conference. I presented Sunday about Healthcare Kaizen...
Sign Up to Receive Chapter 1 Preview of “Healthcare Kaizen”
Tomorrow, at the Society for Health Systems annual conference, I'll be presenting about some of the ideas in my upcoming book (with Joe Swartz)...
Continuing Experiments in Self Publishing & Lean Publishing
After my first experiment with the great Leanpub.com service (my "Best of Lean Blog 2011" eBook), I was happy to see my good friend...
What People Think a Lean Healthcare Consultant Does
Some of you might be familiar with the internet meme, spreading on Facebook especially, about "what people think of my profession" (as described in...
WSJ: How to Be a Better Boss? Spend Time on the Front Lines
Last Thursday's Journal had a story titled "How to Be a Better Boss? Spend Time on the Front Lines." The article talks about senior...
Mental Models and How We View the Gemba & Workers: GM & Dell
Regular readers know I started my career at General Motors from 1995 to 1997. After graduate school at MIT, I took a job at...
Marketing Flyer for Upcoming “Healthcare Kaizen” Book
We are still working on rounds of editing in advance of publication, but here is a marketing flyer for our upcoming book Healthcare Kaizen.
The...
The Fall and Rise of Automotive (and Healthcare) Quality
One of my favorite newspaper writers is Ed Wallace of my local Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Wallace appears in the Sunday automotive section and usually...
Upcoming Lean Speaking Engagements – Las Vegas and Phoenix
I'll be attending and speaking at three public events in the next few months, twice in Las Vegas and once in Phoenix. Hope to...
A Conversation with Al Norval on the Lean Pathways “Manifesto” on Lean Business Systems
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Episode #138 is a discussion with Al Norval from Lean Pathways, talking about his new publication titled:
"The Lean Manifesto: Back to basics - how...
Reader & Book Reviewer Question: The Business Case for Lean Healthcare?
Dr. Jaap van Ede, a Dutch journalist and researcher on business improvement methods (such as Lean, Six Sigma, TOC, QRM, and TPM), has posted...
Reader Question: “No layoffs due to Lean” extends to “no demotions?”
In the Lean movement, organizations are often wise to have some variation on a "no layoffs due to Lean" policy, as I've written about...
