Clearing the Lean Blog Backlog: Lemmings, Change, Lean, & Leadership
Cleaning out the backlog of stuff I wanted to blog about...
Not Being Lean Lemmings; Why Best Practices Don't Yokoten; Nissan Leaders Lead the Way, After the Problems
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Giving Tuesday: The Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation
Today is a day known as "Giving Tuesday," to follow up the commercially-driven "Black Friday" and "Cyber Monday" days.
It's a great day to give to any cause or organization that's meaningful to you.
One organization that I choose to give to throughout the year is the Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation. The Batz Foundation produces practical and helpful guidebooks and apps to help protect patients during their hospital stay or other healthcare encounters.
#Lean Learning Opportunities: Webinars, Workshops, Conferences, and Online Courses
In this post, I share links and information about two upcoming free webinars that I'm hosting this month, some 2018 workshops I'm doing again on better managing metrics, next year's Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, and some online education about "Healthcare Kaizen" that I have opened up for public registration. Please check out all of the links, resources, and information...
Great White Paper: “No More Projects” (or “More Than Projects”)
I really enjoyed and appreciated this new white paper that was written by Dr. Lisa Yerian and Nate Hurle from The Cleveland Clinic: “No More Projects: Kick-starting a continuous-improvement culture in healthcare“ The paper was published by Catalysis and is available…
Upcoming John Toussaint Webinar: Five Changes Great Healthcare Leaders Make to Develop an Improvement Culture
How big is the opportunity for improvement in healthcare? As Dr. Toussaint’s hand gesture, above, indicates… it’s a huge opportunity. There’s a huge need. What’s the best way to improve during increasingly challenging and uncertain times? Engage everybody in improving…
Day 2 of #HCSummit17 – Live Blogging the #Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit
For one last day, I’m at the 8th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Palm Springs, California. See my notes from Day 1 in yesterday’s blog post. Follow on Twitter using the hashtag #HCSummit2017. If you’re here at the event, please…
Live Blogging Day 1 of #HCSummit17 – #Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit
I’m at the 8th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Palm Springs, California. Follow on Twitter using the hashtag #HCSummit2017. If you’re here at the event, please say hello! I love meeting blog readers and podcast listeners. I’ll be adding…
The 2017 Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit (#HCSummit17) Begins
This week, I’m in Palm Springs for the annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. Follow along on Twitter using hashtag #HCSummit17. Today, I’m teaching my “Better Metrics” workshop for the third time this year. This page has some additional resources for attendees (the…
New White Paper: “#Lean for Doctors”
I'm happy to share a link to a white paper that I co-authored for Catalysis (formerly the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value). The paper is titled: "Lean for Doctors." It's co-authored with Dr. John Toussaint and Dr. Jack Billi.
The Need to Consider Other Perspectives in Process Design & Kaizen
In this post, I describe an idea (or a suggestion?) that led to a Kaizen improvement through Catalysis (formerly known as the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value).
