Monthly Archives: February 2014
Reducing Wasted Motion at a Conference: Collaborative Note Taking
I hope many of you will be attending either (or both) of the upcoming LEI summits with me, either the Lean Transformation Summit in...
Those Who Are Newest to #Lean Are Often Those Who Think It’s Simplest
Here's a great post from Pascal Dennis on Lean and PDCA (or PDSA):
PDCA - the Pounding Heart Muscle of Life
Everybody should read Pascal's post......
“You get what you expect and you deserve what you tolerate.”
Along my Lean journey, I learned an expression about the role of leaders and I shared this in my first book Lean Hospitals.
Last year, this...
Weekend Fun: Lean in a British Hospital Soap Opera
Hat tip to Paul Levy for sharing this video originally in his blog post.
Here is the video (you just have to watch the first...
Preaching to the Choir: Lean Works Everywhere
Some of you might have seen it, but I wrote a piece for the LinkedIn Influencers series about how the "Lean Manufacturing" principles are...
Podcast #193 – Mark Jaben, MD on Lean, Change, and Our Brains
My guest for episode #193 is Mark Jaben, MD, talking about our brains, Lean, and change. Mark has been a guest blogger for me...
Super Bowl Commercial: American Factories? You Can’t Do That! Really?
I'm a bit of a counter-culturalist when it comes to the hype about Super Bowl commercials being entertainment and being something we "have to...
Parallels (and Differences) Between the Book “Traction” and Kaizen
When I recently did a Healthcare Kaizen workshop near Detroit, I invited an old friend of mine to attend as a guest. Marisa Smith, an...
Reader Question: Pros & Cons of Observing in the Workplace
I was asked a question by a Twitter follower over the weekend:
"What are the pros & cons of using direct observations in hospital environment...
Process Problem: The NFL Super Bowl Coin Toss, A Defect & Rework
For the coin toss of the Super Bowl 48 (or XLVIII), the referee, Terry McAulay, handed the coin to Joe Namath to toss it......
Practicing What We Preach: Transparency and Kaizen
I'm part of the crowd that asks the following of healthcare organizations and leaders: be transparent and share quality data with the public, be...
