Tag: Healthcare

Listen My guest for episode #166 is Julie Bartels,  Executive Vice President, National Healthcare Information at the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value. In this episode,...

I've been going back through my notes and pictures from my first trip to Japan in November... my goal is to blog about something or...

It's time again for a regular feature I call "Stuff I'm Reading." I have too many browser tabs open and my Mac is bogging...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBmcokWStLk This webinar was held with guest presenter, Mark Graban of https://www.leanblog.org/ Suggestion box programs, while well intended, usually fail to engage employees in any improvement,...

In the Kaizen approach, stealing the ideas of others isn't a negative thing. If somebody else implemented an idea and you can use that...

Today is Valentine's Day, so this blog post should give you a few hours' warning to buy a "just in time" gift for your...

Here is a short video clip from 2009... Dr. John Toussaint talking about the need to shift away from "White Coat Leadership" to Lean...

I've been talking to a lot of healthcare organizations about Kaizen and continuous improvement. There are many organizations embracing the methods that Joe Swartz...

I recently saw this headline in the London Evening Standard: "Nurses struggle to 'get the job done' due to staff shortages and lack of...

Listen: My guest for episode #164 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Rachelle Schultz, CEO of Winona Health (based in Winona, Minnesota). Rachelle was...

Reminder: Please take my reader survey and enter to win some Lean prizes. My friends at LEI have a new book out by Judy Worth,...

Here is a piece that I wrote originally for publication on LinkedIn (but you can read it without an account, I believe). It's not strictly...