Tag: Healthcare
Weekend Fun: An Elegant Solution by Subtraction (“Parks & Recreation”)
Our good friend Matt May (see posts and podcasts about him here) has a new book coming out in October, The Laws of Subtraction:...
Weekend Fun: Where Good Ideas Go to Die
There's a funny cartoon over at ONEFTE.com about suggestions and employee ideas. The post is titled "Where good ideas go to die." One time...
Reader Questions: Lean and Process Improvement in Healthcare
I received some really good questions from a reader, Nick, who has recently crossed industries to bring his Lean Manufacturing experience into healthcare. Since...
Lots of Great Lean Healthcare Progress in Iowa
Thanks to Dean Bliss for sending an article to me about some of the great Lean healthcare work taking place in Iowa. I've visited...
Podcast #139 – David Munch, MD of Healthcare Performance Partners on...
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Episode #139 is a conversation with Dave Munch, MD, the Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer for Healthcare Performance Partners (HPP). Before joining...
ASQ Influential Voices: Young People and the Future of Engineering and...
I'm happy to be participating in the ASQ "Influential Voices" blog series here in 2012. ASQ President Paul Borawski (listen to my podcast with...
10 Tips from a Hospital CEO – from the #SHS2012 Conference
Sunday's keynote presenter at the 2012 Society for Health Systems conference was Dr. Stephen Markovich, the CEO of Riverside Methodist Hospital, a 1000+ bed...
Hello from the SHS Conference & a Question for the Readers
Hello from Las Vegas, where Monday is Day 2 of the outstanding Society for Health Systems annual conference. I presented Sunday about Healthcare Kaizen...
What People Think a Lean Healthcare Consultant Does
Some of you might be familiar with the internet meme, spreading on Facebook especially, about "what people think of my profession" (as described in...
WSJ: How to Be a Better Boss? Spend Time on the...
Last Thursday's Journal had a story titled "How to Be a Better Boss? Spend Time on the Front Lines." The article talks about senior...
Marketing Flyer for Upcoming “Healthcare Kaizen” Book
We are still working on rounds of editing in advance of publication, but here is a marketing flyer for our upcoming book Healthcare Kaizen.
The...
The Fall and Rise of Automotive (and Healthcare) Quality
One of my favorite newspaper writers is Ed Wallace of my local Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Wallace appears in the Sunday automotive section and usually...