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The country’s largest public health system, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation has two Lean healthcare jobs available and they’ve asked me to post them here. Carlos Scholz writes: We have 2 open positions for Lean Facilitators/Trainers at…
About three years ago, I started a group on the Ning platform called “Move to Healthcare.” Sadly, I’ve decided to shut down the site, mainly because it just wasn’t being used much anymore. The chart below (click for larger view)…
KaiNexus has an initial v 1.0 iPhone app that’s about ready to be submitted to Apple! It’s been an exciting past few months at KaiNexus, the software startup where I am the Chief Improvement Officer, as we are adding more…
I wish I had shared this story when the video was still available (not sure why the TV station pulled it down) — in this link: “Freeman cheers staff ideas to improve hospital.” Freeman Health System, in Missouri, saved more…
If you’re a gambler and you take my post title literally, you might be thinking, “The odds? The odds are 1 in 7000, or 0.000142857143.” OK, you probably weren’t thinking that many significant digits, but what’s the point of 1…
Is LEAN an acronym? NO.
Our good friend Matt May (see posts and podcasts about him here) has a new book coming out in October, The Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules For Winning In The Age Of Excess Everything, a follow-up to previous books,…
There’s a funny cartoon over at ONEFTE.com about suggestions and employee ideas. The post is titled “Where good ideas go to die.” One time in a hospital, a heard a team member say that about their suggestion box. The cartoon…
It was a very pleasant surprise that ASQ chose Ari Weizweig, a founder and CEO of Zingerman’s Deli (and other businesses) in Ann Arbor, to be the opening keynote speaker at the recent ASQ Lean & Six Sigma Conference in…
Short post today – the sole purpose is to point you to a great Rhode Island Public Radio story by Megan Hall. She visited VIBCO after I mentioned them to her in a comment on her blog (which I discovered…
Hat tip to John Shook and the Lean Enterprise Institute for pointing this out via his email newsletter — today would have been the 100th birthday of Taiichi Ohno, usually credited as one of the creators of the Toyota Production…
I spent Monday and Tuesday in lovely Phoenix at the ASQ Lean and Six Sigma annual conference. I saw many friends there, including Karen Martin, former (and possibly future) guest blogger Mike Lopez, and Tony Manos from 5S Supply. The…
