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It has been right about three years since I was introduced to Dr. Greg Jacobson via a reader of this blog. It was great to meet a physician who had read, loved, and practiced the ideas from Masaaki Imai’s book Kaizen.…
Mark’s note: Christina Kach is our guest blogger today, with a post written on a flight back from visiting what’s considered to be one of America’s best Lean companies A big part of Lean practice teaches us to find the…
I hope many of you will be attending either (or both) of the upcoming LEI summits with me, either the Lean Transformation Summit in early March or the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in June. See you there? Today’s post is something…
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… twice. Honestly, go read it a few times before returning here. I was fortunate…
“You deserve what you tolerate” is often used to describe leadership responsibility: when leaders allow unsafe conditions or broken processes to continue, those conditions affect the results. But the word “deserve” needs care. Nobody deserves to be harmed by a…
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 minute to see the intro and the clip where the doctor talks about “Lean processing.):…
Some of you might have seen it, but I wrote a piece for the LinkedIn Influencers series about how the “Lean Manufacturing” principles are being used in various “knowledge work” settings – including healthcare, education, software, government, financial services, etc.…
My guest for episode #193 is Mark Jaben, MD, talking about our brains, Lean, and change. Mark has been a guest blogger for me before and it’s great to talk to him today about his research and experiences. In our conversation,…
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 watch” or “have to discuss at the water cooler.” Bah, I don’t pay attention to most…
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 entrepreneur and business owner in Ann Arbor, saw the connections between my Kaizen work and a…
I was asked a question by a Twitter follower over the weekend: “What are the pros & cons of using direct observations in hospital environment to identify value & non value adding activities?” It’s a short question, but I didn’t…
For the coin toss of the Super Bowl 48 (or XLVIII), the referee, Terry McAulay, handed the coin to Joe Namath to toss it… it appeared that McAulay realized when the coin was in mid-air that he had possibly forgotten…
