Tag: Healthcare

Healthcare Improvement Through Lean, Leadership, and Learning

Healthcare improvement isn’t about working harder—it’s about better systems, better leadership, and a culture that supports learning and speaking up. This archive brings together blog posts, podcasts, and reflections on Lean healthcare, patient safety, quality improvement, leadership, and continuous improvement. Many of these posts draw on real hospital experiences and lessons from Deming, Toyota, and frontline healthcare teams, with a consistent emphasis on respect for people and learning from mistakes.

What Visiting Japan Taught Me About Lean Leadership and Healthcare Culture

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This October, I'll be returning to Japan for another Lean healthcare study trip--my seventh time overall and my fifth healthcare-focused visit. With each visit, I...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: June 13, 2025

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This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape explores why real improvement depends on disciplined thinking, leadership habits, and cultural integrity--not slogans or shortcuts....

Are Japanese Hospitals More Lean? What Global Healthcare Leaders Can Learn...

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TL;DR: While some Japanese hospitals excel at Lean, many face the same cultural and systemic barriers seen elsewhere. Visiting Japan isn't about finding a...

Lean Isn’t About Cutting Heads–It’s About Growing People and Cultures of...

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One of the most important, and most misunderstood, principles in Lean thinking is this: Lean is not a cost-cutting strategy. Lean is a people-development strategy. If...

Go and See to Learn: Why Catalysis Healthcare Site Visits Still...

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Years ago (going back to 2009), I was fortunate to play a role in something special: the healthcare site visit program run by Catalysis....

Inside the Lean Healthcare Accelerator: Lessons from Japan with Dave Fitzpatrick

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Learning Lean from Japan isn't about copying tools or culture--it's about seeing what's possible when organizations commit to respect for people, continuous improvement, and...

Lean Healthcare Study Tour in Japan: A Gemba Experience for Hospital...

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This Lean Healthcare Study Tour in Japan gives hospital leaders a rare chance to learn TPS, Kaizen, and Lean leadership directly from Japanese hospitals...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 2, 2025

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This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape examines the shifting balance between people, systems, and strategy in the pursuit of better performance. From...

From Chaos to Clarity: How a Health System CEO Used Process...

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tl;dr: A healthcare CEO explains how Process Behavior Charts replaced reactive metric debates with clarity, trust, and focused improvement by separating signal from noise. "Every...

Driving a Culture of Patient Safety: Lessons for Healthcare and Beyond

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Recently, I had the pleasure of moderating a webinar titled "Driving a Culture of Transforming Patient Safety with KaiNexus" featuring leaders from Our Lady...

Preview: Driving a Culture of Accountability – Transforming Patient Safety with...

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One of the most powerful elements of continuous improvement is the ability to learn from each other across organizations--even across industries. That's one of...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: April 4, 2025

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Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly...
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