Tag: Huddle

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As part of my affiliation with the firm Value Capture, I've been writing on their blog. Here are some recent posts of mine that...

Today, I'd like to celebrate my friends at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Iowa for being one of six healthcare organizations to receive the...

When I blogged a summary of my recent Brazil trip, I said I'd write more about my visit to a hospital... so here's that...

I want to give credit to my friend and colleague Tony Milian for the idea that prompted this blog post. Tony and I used...

Cleveland Clinic's daily tiered huddles are not just short meetings--they're a Lean management system that connects front-line realities to executive decision-making in real time....

Today is one of those days where I think, "Forget what I have to say, read this...." This being a LinkedIn post written by James Hereford, the CEO of Fairview Health Services in Minnesota. "How huddles help us lead" I think the "us" says a lot, instead of a headline about "How huddles help ME lead."

Today's post is my eighth cartoon collaboration with a skilled artist and medical assistant, Carrie Schurman (see past cartoons).  You can find her on Twitter as @carrieschurman.

Today's post is written by Steve Hoeft, the SVP, Chief of Operations Excellence at Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) here in Texas. This is his first written contribution to Lean Blog, but you might remember him as a guest in episode #226 of my podcast, where he and co-author Dr. Bob Pryor talked about their book The Power of Ideas to Transform Healthcare: Engaging Staff by Building Daily Lean Management Systems. His article begins: "In my years serving as continuous improvement leader and consultant for some great organizations, I've discovered something consistent: Improvement will not happen on its own."

Mark's Note: Today's post is an excerpt, used with permission, from a new book by Steven Leuschel titled "Lean Culture Change," with an introduction...

Following up on yesterday's post on seemingly successful experiments with ACOs, here's another article, from HBR, on "safety huddles" in healthcare: "How Every Hospital Should Start...

Hosted by Steve Hoeft, author of the book Stories from My Sensei: Two Decades of Lessons Learned Implementing Toyota-Style Systems, I had a chance...