All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
It's great to see Lean healthcare featured in one of the world's leading news and business publications. The Economist recently published this article:
"Hospitals are learning from industry how to cut medical errors"
Thanks to posting about the trip on LinkedIn, I learned that Mike Bukowski is now working for Sazerac, the parent company of Buffalo Trace, in a process improvement role. Last year, Mike attended the site visit and class that Joe Swartz and I hosted at Franciscan St. Francis Health.
Mike has embraced might call "lessons from Toyota," as taught to healthcare people, and is now training and coaching people who make some very fine bourbon, including Aaron Krentz, Processing Supervisor (at right).
Back on the podcast for the sixth time is my friend David Meier, a Lean / TPS consultant who is a former Toyota leader at their plant in Georgetown, Kentucky. As we mentioned in our April episode (#304), he's gotten into what's, perhaps, the most Kentucky of industries... distilling bourbon (and more) at Glenn's Creek Distillery.
In this episode, there's a lot of bourbon talk, with some Lean concepts thrown in. If you share our interest in Lean and whiskey, then this might be your most favorite episode ever. Of course, if you don't have any interest in bourbon, you might well skip this one.
I'm excited to share two interesting opportunities to further our learning about Lean. One is a Texas-based event in September and the other is Japan-based, in October.
Here is the recording of the webinar I told you about recently, with themes from my book Measures of Success.
What is "management by emoji?"
Here is my latest article that I published on LinkedIn:
Is the Reported Drop in Major League Baseball Attendance a "Signal" or "Noise" in the Data?
We have two free webinars coming up in the next week, hosted by KaiNexus. I hope you can join us.
Oh, as a reminder, I'm doing a Measures of Success webinar this Friday, the 22nd.
The webinars are:
The Lowdown on A3 Software [Demo]
How to Ease the Pain of Change
Hi — I’m still not blogging much these days, as I try to focus on finishing my book Measures of Success. You can still buy the current “in-progress” book, which is about 85% complete. I’m still editing and tweaking the book,…
For a long time, I've wanted to attend a "Statistical Process Control" (SPC) class taught by Donald J. Wheeler, Ph.D.
I'm finally doing this in September and I'd like to invite you to join me.
Joining me again for Episode #308 is Mike Grogan, a previous guest in episodes #182 (from Tanzania) and #224. Mike now lives in the Philippines, where he's helping and coaching many people and has written a new book, The MESSI Way.
I was very sad to see the news about Anthony Bourdain's death, reportedly by suicide.
I regularly watched Bourdain's TV shows, "No Reservations" and "Parts Unknown." I don't normally get too excited about celebrity, but I do remember entering a contest where the prize was a chance to have dinner with him.
I also read his famed book Kitchen Confidential, which I really enjoyed. The other day, I saw a friend post a link to his 1999 article ("Don't Eat Before Reading This") in the New Yorker, which led to the 2001 book. He had a way with words, on the page and on screen.
Recently, I stumbled across some video of me and Dr. Greg Jacobson giving a talk at a health system. I think it's from 2013. So, I'm sharing this as a "Throwback Thursday."
KaiNexus software has changed and evolved a lot in five years as the company has grown. Kaizen, or continuous improvement, principles and practices are timeless.
