This is the starting point for a blog post that I should expand on… after posting these initial thought fragments on LinkedIn. JIT might have been given the wrong name… please hear me out. There has been so much confusion…
My guest for Episode #366 is Harry Moser, founder of the Reshoring Initiative. We talk about “reshoring,” in general, and why that’s such an important issue in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond. Harry definitely falls into the…
I normally love the public radio program “Marketplace” and have listened to it (on radio or as a podcast) for 15 years or so. But, I was very disappointed with this recent piece, which you can read here: “Just-in-time” manufacturing…
Continuing my series of blog posts about my July trip to China, today’s post is about my first significant walk through a hospital during the trip. My group had a chance to visit the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University.…
Continuing my series of blog posts about my July trip to China, today’s post is about the second city I visited: Shanghai. This post has some photos and descriptions of the high-speed train trip and other travel-related details. You can…
Continuing to go through my notes, picking up from my last post… Visuals The presenter said something that’s certainly a familiar challenge with facilities here in the U.S.: ‘”Patients often get lost due to a lack of good signs.” One…
Continuing from Part 1 of my post about my first day of my first China trip, I’d like to share more about the Lean healthcare conference and presentations that took place. In the next presentation from a Chinese hospital, the…
After arriving at the hotel in Beijing at about 8 pm the night before, I participated in a day-long Lean Healthcare conference that very next morning. I’m glad I always presented in the mornings because I was always fresh (I…
I just returned on Wednesday from my first trip to China to meet with people and give presentations about Lean in healthcare. It was a whirlwind to say the least. I spent nearly as much time traveling as I did…
I’m back from vacation and, as with any good vacation, I’m trying to get back into the swing of things with work and the blog. Thanks again to all of my great guest bloggers from the past two weeks. One…
Here are links to some more articles I’ve read recently that might be of interest on a number of Lean related topics: Twin boys die after morphine overdose (understaffing, poor training, & other system issues) Two years on, gov’t says…
There has been a lot of buzz over last Sunday’s New York Times article “How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work.” (Free article). Editor’s Note: Why This Still Matters Today More than a decade later, this conversation is even…
