Tag: Carrie Schurman

Look Out! Be Careful! That Chart is Out of Control!?!

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Here's the latest cartoon collaboration with a skilled artist and medical assistant, Carrie Schurman (see past cartoons). You can find her on Twitter as @carrieschurman. The idea for this cartoon came from Maggie Millard, the director of marketing at KaiNexus. Maggie has learned about Process Behavior Charts from me and some of the stories are incorporated into my book Measures of Success.  What does this "out of control chart" look like and why did it make me chuckle?

[Cartoon] The Elephant in the (Board) Room

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Today's post is my eighth cartoon collaboration with a skilled artist and medical assistant, Carrie Schurman (see past cartoons).  You can find her on Twitter as @carrieschurman.

[Cartoon] Money to Burn / Dumpster Fire Fighting in Healthcare

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We don't have money for improvement initiatives, but we do have money to burn on a daily basis due to poor quality and bad systems?

The Opposite of “Serious Emergency Care” [Cartoon]

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Hospital billboards and health system advertising can be a curious thing. One ad that I see driving between San Antonio and Austin is one...

Cartoon: The Workplace “Brain Check Station”

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Here's my latest cartoon collaboration with a skilled artist (and medical assistant), Carrie Schurman. You can see the whole series via this link. How many organizations ask...

Cartoon: There’s A Time & A Place to Fight Fires

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Here's my latest cartoon collaboration with a skilled artist (and medical assistant), Carrie Schurman. You can see the whole series via this link. In the Lean world,...

Unclear on the Lean Concept: Gemba Walks

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Here's the third cartoon collaboration with artist Carrie Schurman, CMA (AAMA), a workflow facilitator at a health system in Florida. See all of the cartoons here....

The Sensei Café Dilemma: Why Lean Thinking Makes Lunch Annoying

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Last week, I published my first cartoon collaboration with a skilled artist (and medical assistant), Carrie Schurman. You might call that cartoon "Strategy Dog-ployment." None of us...

The One Where a Dog Reviews the Strategy Deployment Metrics Wall

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I've had some cartoons on the blog before, including a few "Doofus & Leanies."  I can't draw at all, believe me (although I sometimes...