Tag: Healthcare
What They’re Saying Now about Lean Healthcare in Saskatchewan
There have been plenty of headlines and updates since I first blogged about the controversy over Lean healthcare in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan...
Read What This Hospital CEO Says on His Blog About Lean...
Hospital CEOs are busy people, to say the least, but a big part of their leadership role includes communication with employees, physicians, and the...
Why Every Patient Deserves the Care & Caution that Surrounds the...
Today's post is a link to my article written for the LinkedIn "Influencers" series:
Why Every Patient Deserves the Care & Caution that Surrounds the...
This Date in Lean Blog History: August 6
My blog will turn 10 years old in February 2015. You're probably either thinking, "Wow, that's awesome!" or "Get a life, dude." :-)
Here's a...
What I’m Reading: Diner Muda, No Blame at Etsy, Toyota Treats...
In case you missed it, see Saturday's post: "Why Toyota is Eliminating the Andon Cord from its Factories."
As I occasionally do, today's post is...
Why Toyota is Eliminating the Andon Cord from its Factories
If you clicked on my intentionally attention grabbing headline (or what might be a parody of those)... no, Toyota isn't killing their famed and...
Podcast #205 – Joe Schnur, Innovations for Hand Hygiene & Patient...
Listen:
Episode #205 is a conversation with Joe Schnur, VP Business Development at Intelligent M, a company that "designs data-driven hand hygiene compliance improvement solutions for...
A Survey Would Show 83% of Surveys about Lean Healthcare are...
Last month, I saw a headline flying around Twitter about a survey that says a majority of hospital pharmacies are embracing Lean. A statement...
Report to President Obama Endorses Lean & Systems Engineering in Healthcare
I recently saw a tweet that referenced a May 2014 that was sent to President Obama and his administration: "Report to the President - Better HealthCare...
Podcast #204 – Paul Plsek, Lean & Innovation at Virginia Mason...
Joining me today for Episode #204 is Paul Plsek, and we're talking about his excellent book (a Shingo Research Award recipient this year) titled...
Picking on the PICK Chart: How to Use It to Prioritize...
The so-called "PICK chart" has become a pretty common sight in healthcare as a way of visualizing and prioritizing Lean or Kaizen improvement ideas....
It’s Awful When the Person Teaching Lean Doesn’t Get the Bad...
Long-time readers might remember this post of mine from February 2007:
Bad Lean/5S Hits the UK Media
Please check out that post. It's a classic example...












