Tag: CEO
“The Executive Guide to Healthcare Kaizen” Coming Soon – Preview a...
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
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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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
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?
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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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”
"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
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...
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?
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,...
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...
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...