Tag: Healthcare
My Article on Healthcare Supply Chain Lessons from Other Industries
Cardinal Health has posted my article on their website:
Creating a New "Gold Standard" - Healthcare Supply Chain Best Practices from Other Industries
You can view...
Changing the Culture: Cursing Football Coaches, Attacking the Change Agent
John W. Parks IV, pictured at left, is a Professor of Percussion at Florida State University. He was one of my favorite people during my...
#TBT: What CFO Magazine Wrote About #Lean in 2009
I first blogged about this article back in 2009 and it's still online:
"Keen to Be Lean"
The sub headline talks about hospitals being "desperate to...
“The reign of the king-leader is gone” at GM? What about...
I was happy to see an engineer (Chemical Engineering) and a General Motors leader, Alicia Boler Davis, on the cover of the Northwestern University...
But Pigs and Corn Aren’t Cars! #Lean in Farming
I don't know anything about farming. The only time I spend on "farms" is visits to wineries that grow grapes, as I've blogged about...
#TBT: Part 2, A Year of KaiNexus Webinars, July through December,...
Following up on last week's post where I shared KaiNexus webinars from the first half of the year....
Again, one of the things I do...
Podcast #269 – Brian MacNeice & James Bowen, “Powerhouse” Book, Toyota,...
Joining me for Episode #269 are Brian MacNeice & James Bowen, co-authors of the recently released book Powerhouse: Insider Accounts into the World's Top High-performance Organizations....
How St. Mary’s Hospital (Ontario) Succeeds Through Staff Kaizen Ideas
Back in 2014, I wrote about a CBC radio piece that featured, among other organizations, St. Mary's General Hospital in Ontario:
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Examples of Corporate Speak That Masks Reality in Banking and Healthcare
I get annoyed by corporate euphemisms, such as referring to people as "resources," the term "right-sizing" for layoffs, and the type of jargon and babble...
Lean Thanksgiving: Streamlining Your Holiday Dinner Preparation
It's almost Thanksgiving here in the United States, so I'll be taking the rest of the week off from the blog to enjoy some...
21 Things That Are Pretty Universal in My Global Lean Healthcare...
I do a lot of work across the U.S., but I've also been very fortunate to work with hospitals, clinics, and health systems around...
[Article] Creating a New “Gold Standard” — Healthcare Supply Chain Best...
Thanks again to Cardinal Health for sponsoring the webinar that I did with them and Fierce Healthcare on supply chain best practices from other...