Throwback Thursday: Flexing, Gemba Claus, Problems, Shook, Jail, and Holiday Gifts
As we start easing into the holidays, I wanted to share a few throwback posts from this day or this week from…
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The Emperor’s Sacred Cow’s New Clothes – “Flexing”…
Since moving into healthcare in 2005, I've been surprised by a number of things in the hospital environment.…
Lean Healthcare Means Having the Right Staffing Levels for Safety, Quality, and…
I was prompted today to think about an excerpt from my book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and…
Lean Should be the Solution to Hospital Overwork or Understaffing
The first part of this post is a pretty long introduction before sharing quotes and views from an article that…
#TBT: Happy National Nurses Week – Posts on #Lean and Nursing
This week is National Nurses Week. Nurses are highly skilled and, too often, are underappreciated.
Lean should…
Podcast #307 – Andre DeMerchant, “You Can’t Cut Your Way to…
Joining me for Episode #307 of the podcast is my friend Andre DeMerchant, the President of DeMerchant Healthcare…
#TBT: What CFO Magazine Wrote About #Lean in 2009
I first blogged about this article back in 2009 and it's still online:
"Keen to Be Lean"
The sub headline talks…
If Your Hospital Wants to “Implement #Lean,” You Need to Learn This…
I've written before about the subject of hospitals "flexing" nurses and employees. I've criticized flexing (or the…
What Virginia Mason’s CEO Dr. Gary Kaplan Warns Against With #Lean
Dr. Gary Kaplan is the CEO of Seattle's Virginia Mason Medical Center, considered one of the world leaders in the…
Toyota’s Japan Shutdown & Lessons for Hospitals (and Others)
I wrote a new piece for LinkedIn that I hope would be of interest to you even if you’re in healthcare. Why? It’s a…
The Main Lesson That Businesses (and Hospitals) Can Learn From This Toyota Plant…
If you follow the auto industry, you might have seen headlines this week about how Toyota is being forced to shut…
Is This The One Question That Determines If You’re Truly a Lean-Thinking…
I get asked a lot, “How do you know if a hospital is truly ‘Lean?'” Nobody is ever perfect or “fully Lean,” but you…
So-Called “Just in Time” Retail Staff Scheduling is not #Lean At All
Stories like this have been in the news before, but this was circulating the past few days: "Why erratic schedules…
This WSJ Article (as do Many Organizations) Misses the Point of 5S
Neatness Counts at Kyocera and at Others in the 5S Club - WSJ.com
I'm going to violate a rule I have to try not…
Lean Meets Green at Subaru
By Jason Turgeon:Introductions:I'm Jason Turgeon, the newest addition to the Lean Blog team. Mark and I have had…