Tag: Kaizen

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A question asked after a recent virtual keynote talk that I did for a health system on continuous improvement caught my attention: "What are your...

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #539 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Darren Walsh, author of...

TL;DR Larry Culp, CEO of GE Aerospace, shows that Lean leadership isn't about tools or slogans--it's about daily behaviors. By grounding Lean in safety,...

Back in 2009, my friend and KaiNexus co-founder Dr. Greg Jacobson and his colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center published an article that still...

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In Lean circles, we talk a lot about leadership commitment. But it's not every day that a CEO puts their hair on the line...

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When Better Care Leads to Lower Costs: A Pharmacist-Driven Kaizen Story In healthcare, improvement initiatives often get derailed when they start with one primary question:...

In 2014, Gregory Clancy and I co-authored an article about Allina Health's early Kaizen-based improvement journey. We told a story that felt both simple...

Every few years--or let's be honest, quite often on social media--we see a statistic making the rounds: "70% of Lean initiatives fail." It's usually...

Have you ever seen a problem at work but decided not to say anything? Maybe you were worried about the reaction (fear). Or maybe...