Tag: CEO

“The Executive Guide to Healthcare Kaizen” Coming Soon – Preview a...

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Joe Swartz and I are building upon our well-received (and Shingo Research Award winning) book  Healthcare Kaizen  with a new special edition aimed at...

Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson on Continuous Improvement

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There's a great piece, currently available for free on the HBR website, about continuous improvement: The Culture to Cultivate The author, George Halvorson, is the recently...

Podcast #178 – Drew Greenblatt, President of Marlin Wire on Lean...

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Listen Joining me for Podcast #178 is Drew Greenblatt, President and Owner of Marlin Steel Wire Products, a manufacturing company based in Baltimore. I was...

Video about “Healthcare Kaizen” at Franciscan St. Francis Health System

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Below is a very nice video that was produced by Franciscan St. Francis Health System, the organization where my  Healthcare Kaizen co-author Joe Swartz...

Have Staff Really Lost Sight of the Patient Experience?

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Dr. Delos ("Toby") Cosgrove, President and CEO of the famed Cleveland Clinic, wrote an article on LinkedIn recently: "Patient Experience: Time for Hospitals to...

Podcast #173 – Alan Gleghorn, CEO of Christie Clinic on Lean,...

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Listen My guest for podcast #173 is Alan Gleghorn, CEO of Christie Clinic in central Illinois. Alan is one of the keynote presenters at the...

A Lean Guy Watches CBC’s “Rate My Hospital”

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"Approximately 8 to 10% of the individuals who walk through our doors are being hurt by us," says David  Musyj, CEO of Windsor Regional...

AME Spring Conference: Art Byrne

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Like yesterday's "live blog" post about the Autoliv talk, I also wrote this post as Art Byrne talked, but held it for publication today....

Podcast #172 – Jerry Bussell, Anatomy of a Lean Leader and...

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Joining me for episode #172 is Jerry Bussell, previously a guest on episode #137. Today, we're talking about his recent book, Anatomy of a...

A Lack of PDSA Made JCP’s New CEO SOL?

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It's been interesting to follow the rise and fall of former Apple retailing executive Ron Johnson during his less-than-two-year stint as CEO at long-struggling...

Lean Healthcare *is* About Quality – a Falsehood, a Wise CEO,...

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I always get annoyed when people spread the false dichotomy of "Lean is about efficiency and Six Sigma is for quality." Replace the word...

Japan Trip: Going to Gemba and Seeing 5S at a Japanese...

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I've been going back through my notes and pictures from my first trip to Japan in November... my goal is to blog about something or...
"The Mistakes That Make Us" Receives the Shingo Award!Learn More
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