All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
Today, I’m sharing a preview (in podcast and transcript form) of a webinar that Steve Kane, from Gemba Academy, will presenting on April 8th as part of the KaiNexus webinar series. Coaching Strategies for Leaders It’s free and I hope…
I’ve been thinking a lot about hospitals and how they’re preparing for the expected tsunami of Covid-19 patients who will need ICU beds and ventilators (when it’s expected that there won’t be enough of either). There have also been recent…
See all of Greg’s email updates on this page Greg Jacobson, MD is a practicing emergency room physician. He’s a friend and trusted colleague and he’s not prone to overreaction and exaggeration. We just got off the phone and his…
Returning for Episode #360 of the podcast is Leah Binder, the president and CEO of Leapfrog Group. We last talked four years ago in Episode #240 about the patient safety crisis and efforts to improve. Today, we’ll talk about hospitals’…
Healthcare – Creating Value for Patients Running controlled experiments for evaluating interventions in healthcare is usually infeasible – the presentation of patients can be random and most factors are impossible to control. However, experimenters can benefit from the quasi-random assignment…
Listen: In Episode 14 of Lean Whiskey, Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh finish off another weekend by catching up, drinking whiskey, and talking shop. In whiskey, we explore the idea of adding water to your whiskey. Rather than take the…
I realize there’s a lot of serious stuff going on in the world… and that’s weighing on my mind a ton, which is one reason I haven’t been blogging quite as much recently. But, if you’ll forgive the indulgence, I’m…
I normally love the public radio program “Marketplace” and have listened to it (on radio or as a podcast) for 15 years or so. But, I was very disappointed with this recent piece, which you can read here: “Just-in-time” manufacturing…
Year-to-date metrics often mislead leaders by hiding meaningful system improvements and exaggerating routine variation–making Process Behavior Charts a far better way to evaluate performance. Why Year-to-Date Numbers Hide What’s Really Happening in the System In my travels, I see many…
My guest for Episode #359 of the podcast is Prof. Dr. Alfred Angerer, joining me from Switzerland to talk about Lean healthcare. I had a chance to visit a hospital with Alfred, in Switzerland, late last year, as we discussed…
Healthcare – Creating Value for Patients Developing a culture of patient safety requires the ability to raise risks without fear of reprisal. This post from leanblog.org about a nurse who failed to report a critical incident for fear of being immediately…
TL;DR: When the wrong house gets demolished–again–it’s not a rogue worker problem. It’s a system and verification failure. Blame doesn’t prevent recurrence; better process design does. I can’t believe I’m writing about this again. But, I saw in the news…
