Tag: Canada

A Lean Guy Reads the Globe and Mail – Shoelaces &...

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I was in Canada a few weeks back and two articles from the Globe and Mail newspaper caught my eye - stories from England...

True Story: Funny Canadian Border Agent Asks About My Books

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I'm back in Ontario again this week, giving three more short workshops about Healthcare Kaizen  at three different hospitals (after seven hospitals in five...

The Positive Trend of “Lean Design” of the Space & Processes...

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It's been nice to see the "lean design" approach taking hold in healthcare over the past few years. I think the first book on...

Summit 2011: Lean Transformation Videos from St. Boniface Hospital

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We had a great first day at our Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Seattle (with lots of tweets from attendees you can follow along...

Learning and Sharing Lean Healthcare in Winnipeg

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The Winnipeg Free Press has an article about their local St. Boniface Hospital, a member of the LEI/ThedaCare network I'm involved with called the...

Retaining Employees through Respect and Development

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I was recently in Toronto and I heard a story on an AM news station that really caught my ear. I have searched on...

Lean is “Taking Canadian Healthcare by Storm,” but Look Out for...

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In an article ("Assembly required: Health care from the Toyota factory floor") from Canada's National Post newspaper says Lean healthcare is "taking Canadian healthcare...

Dr. Deming – “More Relevant Than Ever”

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Being a huge fan of Dr. W. Edwards Deming, especially so some 17 years after his death, I like any article that concludes with...

How the Gold Medal Puck Was Almost Lost

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As an American, and a Red Wings fan, it pains me, in a way, to write about Sidney Crosby and the Canadian team's overtime...

Lean Materials Management Improves Hospital Service, Bottom Line

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Lean... and saving green - Materials Management in Healthcare Mag Here's an article in a healthcare trade publication that features the Lean improvements from two...

A Nurses Union in Canada Supports Lean

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telegraphjournal.com - Lean process, big results I'll write more on this topic of unions and Lean tomorrow, but I wanted to share this story from...

Lean Methods for Aerospace and Healthcare in Ontario

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Article - How Toyota builds carsHere's an article from Canada about how Toyota (an automaker) manages to be influential to Bombardier (maker of planes)...