Tag: Innovation
The One Word I Kept Hearing at Wineries in Spain and...
I'll get right to it. The word:
"Experiment."
Well, I also heard "experiments" and "experimenting," but you get the idea.
As I've blogged about before, my wife...
Lean: A Combination of “Why?” and “Why Not?”
When we have really sticky, complicated problems (like the widespread healthcare patient safety and quality problems), I think it's interesting to think about problems...
Lessons from Brett Favre on Permission and Innovation
It's a big week for American football. Monday was the College Football Playoff championship game. Alabama, led by Nick Saban and his "Process" were...
Why We Should All Consider Eric Ries’s “Employee’s Bill of Rights”
As you might know from episode #290 of my podcast with Eric Ries on Monday, his new book was released on Tuesday: The Startup Way: How...
Imitation as a Path to Innovation — If You Know What...
At the recent Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, there were thought provoking presentations... and we had many discussions about the role of incremental improvement vs. redesign or transformation. And, lots of discussions about imitating vs. innovating... so I explore those themes in this post.
#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...
Updates: NICU Innovation, Labs, MLB Netting, VA Waiting (and Cheating)
I recently saw some updates and new details related to some topics I've covered here on the blog, so I'm combining them into this...
Trying Too Hard to Force Innovation (or Kaizen) Can Backfire
The W. Edwards Deming Institute posted a video of Kevin Cahill, a grandson of Dr. Deming, welcoming people to the event and talking about innovation, or the desire that people have for it. But, they don't know what to do...
Podcast #204 – Paul Plsek, Lean & Innovation at Virginia Mason...
Joining me today for Episode #204 is Paul Plsek, and we're talking about his excellent book (a Shingo Research Award recipient this year) titled...
What People Say is Their “Biggest Challenge Related to Innovation and...
Yesterday's post was about some of our work at KaiNexus and today's post is hosted over on the KaiNexus Blog:
Challenges to Innovation and Improvement
In...
Failure Is Indeed an Option if We’re Trying New Things
If we're trying new things, there are bound to be "failures."
If our leaders want guaranteed success, we won't be trying many new things. The...
Eric Ries On The Lean Startup Methodology And How To Build...
Episode #115 is a discussion with Eric Ries (@ericries), entrepreneur and author of the book The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically...
