By Dean Bliss I recently attended Perfecting Patient Care University, a 4-day training event that teaches Lean in healthcare. The University is a product of the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI), which has been around since the late 1990’s, was…
Reminder: Reader Survey Link (2 minutes of your time) Economy brings layoffs at Kearney hospital – Top Local Stories – News : KHAS-TV Here is a story from Nebraska, local TV news again, about Lean at a hospital. If you…
Local doctors cut stress Below is a video from an Albuquerque TV news station, visiting a doctor’s office that was implementing Lean. I wish I could take credit… it was work done by someone I know, actually. The video shows…
Following the pattern of our good friend Ron Pereira at the Lean Six Sigma Academy, a number of us are going “Best of 2008” posts, in coordination with John Hunter and the Curious Cat blog. Click here for John’s compilation…
LEAN.org – Lean Enterprise Institute John Shook is one of my favorite people in the Lean world. I’ve learned more about Toyota-style leadership from him than anyone else (the learning-to-time-exposed-to-John ratio is very, very high). John has a new book…
Podcast Episode #51 is the first part of a two-parter (listen to part 2 here) with retired Lt. Randy Russell of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, an innovator in the use of Lean methods for improving law enforcement. Starting in 2004, the…
Obama Promises To Stop America’s S***ty Jobs From Going Overseas | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source Replace “some” in my post headline with a word that rhymes with “witty” but starts with an “sh.” OK, by now, you…
I’m traveling and will probably be away from the blog through Sunday unless something really big happens in the Lean world. I have a lot of posts for next week that I’m going to be working on, including one story…
So I’m using some online software for work, a system that I don’t normally have to use. I enter a login and password, and then hit the ENTER key on my keyboard. Most web pages or software will recognize this…
Hopkins | Episodes — #1 (Video) Has anyone else watched the ABC “news” show called “Hopkins“? I’ve seen just the first episode (via iTunes) and wanted to comment on it. I believe you can watch the show free using the…
CNBC Link to Show and Online Video I’m setting the DVR from England and will watch this over the internet when time allows (isn’t technology great?). A PR person from CNBC pointed out this show, so I thought I’d suggest…
Clients of mine always end up saying something like “Lean really gets into your head… it’s hard to turn off” – or at least one on every project ends up saying that. That’s a good thing… a way of thinking,…