Tag: Healthcare

Today, I'm sharing a few links featuring the thoughts of John Toussaint, M.D., the CEO Emeritus of the ThedaCare health system in Wisconsin and...

What is your role at work? Your purpose? Those questions might make you really stop and think. I sat in yesterday on a class, taught...

In this article, "Go Lean in 2010: Reducing Waste in Construction," there's a nice description of the design process that Seattle Children's Hospital uses...

When I was in Sweden recently, we had a lot of good discussion about the Lean concept of "standardized work." There was a lot of...

Here is a nice 5-minute introduction to the topic without too much mockery from Jon Stewart! Stewart even makes a Star Wars reference - an...

For a number of reasons, I've decided to re-read my copy of one of the most influential books I've ever read: Out of the...

This story is from Wisconsin Public Radio talks about Lean at Aurora Health Care, based in the Milwaukee area. ("Hospitals Turn to Lean Management...

Mark's note: This is a guest post made available for me to post by Barnes-Jewish Hospital. by Laurie Wolf and Nancy Sigillito The full article is...

I just finished Dr. Atul Gawande's latest book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. I believe that this book is the single...

Here is an article that discusses the adoption of Lean methods at Akron Children's Hospital ("Hospital embraces lean strategies of manufacturing"). The article spells out...

As I'm traveling back from Sweden today, I think I'll be catching up on the web reaction to Toyota's major quality problems and recalls....

I had an incredible visit to a hospital in Stockholm yesterday, to walk the "gemba" (the actual workplace)   to see their lean improvement...