Tag: Healthcare

"Shadowing" is a very powerful method. In a healthcare setting, we can shadow patients or staff to better understand the "current state" of how...

I've re-read this article a number of times: "Cancer clinics are turning away thousands of Medicare patients. Blame the sequester." It's a sad situation -...

I was fortunate to have three interviews published in the past week, where I was talking about Lean Healthcare and Kaizen, so I thought...

I've cited his book before (including this post with an example from The Office)...  Brian Joiner wrote, in his outstanding book Fourth Generation Management:...

In recent years, there's been a movement away from having first-year residents work such long grueling hours - 24 hour shifts or longer, multiple...

There's been a lot happening since my last update on the blog about KaiNexus, the technology company that "makes improvement easier," where I am...

I've never been a big fan of the TSA or any form of visual inspection. I wasn't a fan, either, of the automated x-ray...

Joining me for Episode #169 is Leonard L. Berry, PhD,  Distinguished Professor of Marketing in the  Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. We...

I always get annoyed when people spread the false dichotomy of "Lean is about efficiency and Six Sigma is for quality." Replace the word...

From today's news: "Backup presidential limo on its way for Obama in Israel after fuel filling failure." U.S. President Barack Obama's trip to Israel was...

While Lean is not primarily a cost-cutting methodology (or, we could say it's not focused ONLY on costs), cost reduction is a common end...

Today I'm linking to a guest post that I wrote for my friend Marc Rouppe van der Voort who works at St. Elisabeth Hospital...