All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
One of my projects with LEI and the Healthcare Value Network is a podcast series I am hosting featuring leaders from our various Network member organizations. I don’t have a LeanBlog Podcast this week, but if you are listening for…
I really had a great learning experience at last week’s LEI Lean Transformation Summit that was held here in Dallas. The event sold out six weeks in advance, so a lot of regular attendees got frozen out, unfortunately. All of…
Mark’s note: I’m happy to have a new guest blogger, Dr. Wiljeana Glover, from MIT, and a fellow member of the Society for Health Systems. The plan is that Wiljeana will be a regular guest blogger here. Greetings to the…
Our thoughts and prayers are with our friends in Japan and everybody there dealing with the aftermath of the earthquake and whatever problems are yet to come. This article from Forbes gives some suggestions on how to donate and how…
Coming off of an outstanding 2011 Lean Transformation Summit (blog posts to come), John Toussaint, MD, is doing a huge favor for the Dallas-Fort Worth area (my home). John has stayed over to participate in a meeting we are holding…
Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, joins me to talk about how Lean principles shaped his approach to entrepreneurship, what continuous innovation actually looks like in practice, and why these ideas apply just as much inside large companies as…
Is oatmeal good for you? It generally is…. well, unless it isn’t. Oatmeal can lower your cholesterol, is full of whole grains, and on its own isn’t sweet (it doesn’t HAVE to have tons of brown sugar added in). This…
As many people do, I had to fill out an online health assessment for the purposes of my family’s health insurance. The survey asked the usual physical history questions, do you wear seat belts, do you smoke, etc.? It caught…
A few weeks back, I attended the Society for Health Systems (SHS) Conference in Orlando, where I chaired the Patient Flow track. There were a lot of great speakers and I have a lot of notes and ideas to share.…
Thanks to Mike Wall, the host of the “Radio Lean” online program for interviewing me on Lean Healthcare. You can find streaming audio here or directly download an MP3 file.
Regular readers might know that I’m working on a second book project, about “kaizen” (continuous improvement) in healthcare. Sign up to receive more info about the book, Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Improvements. I have a lot of…
Episode #114 is a conversation with John Kim, of the firm John Kim & Associates. John is a recognized leader in the Design, Development, Implementation and Deployment of Enterprise Wide Lean Transformations. As an executive at The HON Company…
