The Informed Patient – WSJ.com Here’s an article ($$) about hospitals working to prevent bedsores or “pressure ulcers” as they are called. I didn’t get around to blogging about this more fully, but it was in the news recently that…
How Boeing Got Going – TIME Evolving Excellence’s Kevin Meyer will comment on this after his vacation, I’m sure (read his other Boeing comments starting here). There’s a piece in Time Magazine and it makes a very misguided reference to…
TWI Summit – Website It really looks like a powerhouse lineup they are starting to form for the 2008 Training Within Industry conference in Orlando, to be held next May. Speakers will include: Art Smalley David Meier Alan Robinson They…
Here are demographics from my “5 Whys” survey, in case anyone is interested. I’m going to try to do some basic breakdowns to see how the data differ from large companies vs. small, etc. I wish the LEI would report…
Omron HJ-112 Digital Premium Pedometer One thing I am often doing in the course of my Lean work is trying to help reduce the “Waste of Motion” in terms of employee walking. This is especially true is hospital departments, where…
by Mike Lopez All these lead paint toy scandals are only the beginning. On July 12, 2007, Businessweek ran a story, “Made in China: Faulty Tires.” This story foreshadowed the bloodbath to come. For every scandal, we can expect several high…
DailyKaizen » Kudos to our VP Here’s a great story about a VP transforming their leadership style. If you’re in the manufacturing world, do yourself a favor and read the linked blog post while picturing your own environment, rather than…
The News-Gazette.com:Christie campaign has its seed in Toyota production system Here’s another link to a story about Lean progress in a hospital, this time in Champaign, Illinois. It’s especially good they are looking at reducing patient waiting times, MRI, CT…
From the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, of which I’m a proud member. I wish my schedule allowed me to attend this event: LEAN IN HEALTHCARE ON DISPLAY AT AME WORKSHOP FEATURING THEDACARE Neenah, Wisconsin, August 21, 2007 – Those interested…
Clinton gets close-up glimpse of nurse’s life – USATODAY.com It’s probably all just political posturing, but Hillary Clinton recently spent two hours shadowing and observing a nurse at a hospital in Nevada. The New York senator spent more than two…
Running a hospital: Our Joint Commission Report The headline is my modification of a Deming expression, that management’s job is prediction. Statistical process control was one way of predicting future outcomes of a process (if you have a statistically stable…
Although I haven’t been posting in the blog recently (sorry), I have been doing some writing, and thought I would share some of that with you now. I continue to support Assembly Magazine with the monthly Leading Lean column. Assembly…