Upcoming Video Podcast, Getting Buy In for Standard Work
Hi everyone — sorry there was no post this morning, my flight home landed at 1 am and I was exhausted this morning, taking it sort of as a vacation day. I have a lot of blogging to catch up,…
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Lean Healthcare Around the World
Hello from Connecticut…. it’s always fascinating to me to see the spread of Lean healthcare around the world. When I attended the Lean Enterprise Institute global summit on Lean Healthcare in the UK in 2007, they had attendees from 20…
Soup Analyst Doesn’t Understand Just-In-Time
Campbell Soup Cools as Grocers Cut Stocks – WSJ.com: Saw an article yesterday about Campbell Soup sales falling because retailers, including Wal-Mart were being more efficient in their supply chain and inventory management. Makes sense to me. Tom Schoewe, chief…
LeanBlog Podcast #63 – David “Zuma Dogg” Saltsburg, Deming-Based Candidate for Los Angeles Mayor
I have a very special guest today… it’s a very spur of the moment podcast with L.A. mayoral candidate, David “Zuma Dogg” Saltsburg. This went from email, to phone call, to podcast all in a few hours. He is running…
A Deming Disciple as Candidate for L.A. Mayor?
L.A. Voters For Change: Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate David Saltsburg (Zuma Dogg) Answers Questions For Daily News I won’t pretend to understand Los Angeles politics (or much anything about L.A.). But, through an automated Google alert, I stumbled across a…
Donations to the Josie King Foundation
As some of you might remember, I was offering autographed versions of my book, Lean Hospitals, with proceeds going to the Josie King Foundation, a group that promotes process improvement and patient safety in healthcare. I’ve had a few people…
What Sets Toyota Apart?
TL;DR: Toyota stands apart because every employee is empowered to improve their work every day. That combination of respect for people, daily improvement, and visible learning creates better quality, safety, and performance–and it works just as well in healthcare as…
Error Proofing To Ensure Hospital Staff Handwashing?
Hand washing and proper hand hygiene is a big concern at most hospitals — thankfully so, since hand hygiene and other basic infection control measures can save lives, preventing or slowing the spread of harmful bugs like MRSA and C-Diff,…
A Closer Look at GM/UAW Hourly Wages
As GM and Chrysler were going back before Congress today, they have been back in the news again lately. I have gotten tired of hearing blowhard analysis on the news channels that “the problem is the UAW.” I can’t count…
Video Interview with Quality Digest Magazine
I was interviewed recently by Quality Digest about my book, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction (first edition). The video appears on their webpage, www.qualitydigest.com or you can click here to play it on their website.
Toyota’s Buyouts and New Leadership
Taking the Wheel as Toyota Skids – NYTimes.com Toyota’s Cost Cutting Plan to Include Buyouts for Factory Workers Toyota famously has avoided layoffs of permanent employees since 1950 and they’ve also taken extraordinary measures to avoid them in recent downtimes.…
Articles about Lean in Healthcare
Part of the MoveToHealthcare.com series: Collections: Resources area of the Healthcare Value Network site Whitepapers from Avera McKennan hospital (SD) Articles: Balle, Michael. Lean as a Learning System in a Hospital Ward (PDF) Lean Enterprise Institute Healthcare Knowledge Center (Collection)…
