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I read this valid complaint from somebody on a LinkedIn group…. it led to a “facepalm” that I managed to catch on camera: I interviewed with a medium sized company for a quality Manager position a while back. They were convinced…
Thanks to my friends at the Lean Enterprise Institute for hosting a new article of mine on their Lean Post blog. “The Question All Healthcare Leaders Should be Asking Themselves” What is that question? Click to find out. And please…
In healthcare patient safety circles, there’s always a lot of discussion about lessons learned from aviation safety. Aviation has gotten much safer over the past few decades, while each new study done in healthcare indicates the patient safety problem is…
Joining me for podcast #191 is my friend and fellow LEI faculty member Mike Orzen (@MikeOrzen), co-author of the Shingo Award-winning book Lean IT: Enabling and Sustaining Your Lean Transformation. I recently crossed paths with Mike in Columbus, Ohio, because we’re…
I had a chance to go back to the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas (TMMTX) plant in south San Antonio last week with a group of executive education students at Trinity University. I first visited the plant back in 2010 and…
Mark’s note: Ah, another NFL playoff weekend and time for another football post to follow up my apparent jinxing of the Eagles’ head coach Chip Kelly last week. Today’s guest post from Chad Walters is an intersection between sports, medicine,…
Since the “Lean” in the “Lean Startup” methodology basically comes from Toyota, it was fascinating to see two engineers from Toyota, Matt Kresse and Vinuth Rai, speak at the 2013 Lean Startup Conference. Matt and Vinuth (pictured below) are from…
Today’s guest post is by Duke Rohe, a Quality Improvement Education Consultant at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. I know Duke from his ongoing involvement with the Society for Health Systems. Check out his previous guest post on Kaizen (continuous…
I recently stumbled across a very interesting and well-produced mixed-media presentation that starts with the sounds of snow crackling under a pair a boots… a video clip that illustrates Delvecchio Finley, the CEO of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, making a snowy trip…
My books are generally well reviewed, thankfully. But, I realize they aren’t inexpensive. The prices are set by my publisher and the prices were increased a few bucks for Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen. The Executive Guide to Healthcare Kaizen was left untouched, thankfully.…
Here is an article I posted yesterday to LinkedIn: An Airline Worker’s Lament: “They Won’t Let Me Help You.“ On LinkedIn, I’m writing for a more general business audience than I am here on LeanBlog.org. In the situation at the…
Episode #190 features Karen Martin, co-author of Value Stream Mapping, on using VSM as a strategic leadership tool–avoiding “map wallpaper,” aligning incentives, and turning future state into execution. My guest for episode #190 is a returning guest (from episode #151),…
