Tag: Bodek

It's important not to confuse a proper Lean "gemba walk" with the idea of "management by walking around" (MBWA).  What did the late, great...

I volunteered to give a presentation last Friday for the North Texas Society for Healthcare Risk Management, where  I was able to debut some...

As regular readers know, I'm working on a second book: Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Improvements. My co-author, Joe Swartz, and I...

In discussions of "kaizen" (the Japanese word that is translated to "continuous improvement" or "change for the better"), I often hear of organizations talk...

Celebrate Norm's birthday by checking out one of our audio or video podcasts that we've done together (the audio podcast was actually his idea,...

Norman Bodek discusses ideas from his book How to Do Kaizen, including why real innovation starts with empowering every employee to be a problem...

Video #11 features  Norman Bodek talking about some of the ideas in his most recent book, How to do Kaizen: A new path to...

I'm here at the Shingo Prize conference for the second year in a row. Lots of good networking and talks/panels. I'll share a few...

In this post, I'm going to tell you about some upcoming Lean events I'm involved in - planning, producing, or participating. Eric Ries "Lean Startups"...

Happy New Year to my blog readers! Do you have any "lean resolutions" for the year 2010? Feel free to share them, if you...

TL;DR: Hospitals that actively engage frontline staff through Lean suggestion systems are saving millions while improving patient care, morale, and safety--without layoffs. Staff-driven kaizen...

Video #7 is a continuation of Episode #3 with Norman Bodek recounting his early trips to Japan and learning about kaizen, just in time,...