Celebrating 15 Years of #Lean Podcasting Today — A Birthday-versary
TODAY marks the 15th birthday (or is it an anniversary?) of my Lean Blog Interviews podcast (known in the…
Interviewed by Doctors on the “Connecting the Dots” Podcast
I'd like to thank my friend Skip Steward for inviting me to be a guest on his podcast called "Connecting the…
Mourning and Remembering My Time With Kaizen Mentor, Norman Bodek
I was incredibly saddened today to hear that Norman Bodek passed away yesterday in Japan, where he had recently…
Maybe “Just Do Its” Should be Called “Just PDSA Its”?
In the practice of Lean and continuous improvement, people often describe small improvements as "Just Do Its."…
Come See a Culture of Continuous Improvement at Franciscan Health This October!
Registration is open for "Kaizen Live!" -- the 2019 edition.
Joe Swartz and I are excited to announce that…
Another Example of Small Steps as a Starting Point for Success
You might remember one of my favorite podcasts was with Dr. Bob Maurer of UCLA, author of two great books on the…
A Concern I Heard about Kaizen at a Veterinary Leadership Conference… It…
I was honored to get to present with my friend Chip Ponsford, DVM at the Veterinary Leadership Conference that was…
Year in Review: My Podcasts About Lean and More
It was a busy year for me in the podcast realm. I produced 33 "Lean Blog Podcast" episodes of interviews about the…
GE Gets a Lean CEO — From the Outside
Jet lag, even well managed and planned for, meant I was awake early on a Sunday morning. Over breakfast, I read…
More on Teaching TQM, TPS, Lean, and Kaizen to Doctors in Japan
In the third and final part of this series, I share more about how Toyota teaches about TPS and TQM... and how they…
Kaizen in the Garrison Brothers Bourbon Bottle Dipping Process
I'm excited that our sold-out "Symposium on Learning Organizations" group will be visiting Toyota's San Antonio…
The Catch-22 of #Lean & Kaizen: You Get More ROI by NOT Focusing Only on…
This post builds off of a little rant I went on over on LinkedIn. I wrote:
The Catch-22 of "Lean" training and…
“Small Kaizen” at a Japanese Hospital Pharmacy, Part 1
I'm overdue in writing more about my last trip to Japan a few months back.
Today, I'll like to share some…
Podcast #305 – Respect for People and Continuous Improvement for Healthcare…
I was recently asked to do a recorded video presentation for a medical conference in Turkey. I spoke about the dual…
#ChangeChampions at Franciscan St. Francis Health – in Supply Chain and…
Today, I'd like to share the second in my series of articles about "Champions of Change." Here, we feature my…
5 Years Since the Publication of “Healthcare Kaizen” –…
One thing I like about Facebook is the way it reminds you about things that happened on this date in previous…
A Recommended Sequence of Podcasts and Webinars on Kaizen and Continuous…
I've produced A LOT of content about Kaizen and continuous improvement over the past 11 years, including podcasts…
#TBT: Kaizen Upon Kaizen in Meeting Scheduling (and a New Kaizen of Mine)
Kaizen is an incremental approach to problem solving and continuous improvement. We don't need to put pressure on…