Tag: Canada

Updated: P&G "Forced" to Shorten Supply Chains, As Are Others

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FT.com / Home UK / UK - Oil price forces P&G to rethink its distributionOK, I'm catching up on an old post since I...

"More Careful" or "Better Processes"?

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NHS: 60,000 medication blunders in 18 months - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - The IndependentTrust me, I'm not picking on the NHS. There's...

Lean in a Liverpool Hospital

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Follow Royal's example on waiting lists, hospitals told - Liverpool Daily Post.co.ukNice story from here in the UK (where I am right now), about...

Deming Overview Article in the News

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The Whig Standard - Ontario, CAI'm always curious when I see an article like this in the news about the late Dr. W. Edwards...

An MD/CEO In Indiana Believes in Lean

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Doctor takes pulse of Lutheran Health | The Journal Gazette:Here's an article about Dr. Mike Schatzlein, Chief executive officer for Lutheran Health Network...

Using Lean to Expand Capacity… Who Loses?

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CJOnline / The Topeka Capital-Journal - Topeka Hallmark to absorb workIs there a Hallmark card that says, "Sorry you lost your job?" They do,...

Paying for Hospital Activity

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B.C. considers radical shift in hospital funding, based on patients treatedThis is something that I just recently learned about the Canadian health system --...

Lean in a Moose Jaw Hospital

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Auto industry process revs up efficiency No, not a hospital for moose -- a hospital in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. The Five Hills Health Region is...

What if Roger Penske *Had* Run Chrysler?

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Roger Penske adds the Smart car to his $17B empire - Oct. 5, 2007Good article here about businessman Roger Penske. I didn't realize...

I got a blurb on the Marketplace website

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APM Marketplace (Business/Economy radio)As you've read here, I'm trying to help get the word out that we should be not just focusing on access...

LEI Web Seminar on Hospital VSM’s

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Value-Stream Improvement for the Office and Services The Lean Enterprise Institute is giving a free webinar on August 2nd, featuring a hospital that presented...

For those who DID see Sicko…

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What are your thoughts? I wrote last week about my thoughts and hopes for the movie "SiCKO". I've actually seen the film now. I won't...