Tag: Healthcare
Missing the Inventory Target at Target & Lessons Learned
Over the weekend, I went to a local Texas Target store to buy a Christmas-themed gift card. I checked a few registers and all...
A Good Lean Healthcare Journal Article with a Puzzling Title
Thanks to the readers who sent this article my way and thanks to the authors for mentioning and citing my book, Lean Hospitals. The...
One Problem with Healthcare Data
This article caught my eye recently: "Canada leads in surgical mishaps." By "leads," the article means they have a high number of mishaps (which...
Webinar Recording from a University of Michigan Health System Lean Leader
Yesterday, the MIT SDM program hosted a webinar by Dr. Jack Billi from University of Michigan. I had the good fortune to meet Dr....
Bob Emiliani on Lean Leadership Lessons from Wiremold and Virginia Mason
A returning guest for episode #132, we are joined by author and professor Bob Emiliani. Today, we are chatting about some videos he recently...
The Lean Blog Holiday Gift Guide
This time of year, every publication under the sun (print and web) has a "Holiday Gift Guide" to share. In that spirit, I am...
Reminder: My Free Webinar on “Healthcare Kaizen” – December 7
I am happy to be partnering with my friends at Gemba Academy to present the 2nd in their free Lean webinar series. My webinar...
New KaiNexus “Explainer Video” & Company Update
Regular readers know that I have been working for a software startup, KaiNexus, as we announced in June, in addition to my writing, consulting...
Management Improvement Blog Carnival #150
The Management Improvement Carnival was started by my friend and fellow LeanDaily blogger John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement blog. My job...
ASQ Member Videos on Quality, Their Careers, and Their Lives
As mentioned in Monday's post with Podcast #131 (Paul Borawski, CEO of the American Society for Quality), ASQ had a contest where members could...
Berwick Steps Down as Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) Administrator
This made news on Wednesday - Dr. Donald M. (Don) Berwick stepped down as CMS Administrator: "Harvard professor Don Berwick resigns as Medicare chief."...
KaiNexus Education Video #3 – Eliminating Waste & NVA
Here is the third short, simple Kaizen education video from KaiNexus. We are embedding these videos into our web-based software, to provide short tips and hints...