Tag: Kaizen
MDs Can Earn a CME Credit from AMA, Learning about Lean
Today, I'm sharing a link to some free "Lean 101" material that the AMA has created for physicians. I'm not sure when this initiative launched, but I just learned about it... the AMA is offering some online education about Lean in healthcare...
You Got Them to Do What? Getting a Hospital to Dedicate...
How many times do we hear people say things like “We don’t have time for Lean” or “We don’t have time for Kaizen“? It happens a lot, right? As I’ve said before (and this video) a “lack of time” is a problem to solve...
It’s Not the Worker’s Fault – in 1980 or Today (Part...
Recently, I shared the famed 1980 NBC documentary, "If Japan Can, Why Can't We?" that essentially introduced W. Edwards Deming to a mainstream Western...
Fighting Against “The Way We’ve Always Done It” – Before Lean...
Through our practice of Lean, we're looking at processes and our management system, looking to identify waste and opportunities for improvement.
Lean is about engaging...
Is Fear the Only Reason Employees Don’t Speak Up?
Last week, as I had mentioned, was our first ever KaiNexus User Conference. We had a great time with our customers and it was amazing to see them share their progress and lessons with each other. I gave a keynote talk on “Getting Back to Basics with Lean.” We also had a professor, Ethan Burris...
One Does Not Simply “Implement Lean”
In the past, I used the term “implement Lean” and it’s a hard habit to break. Back in about 2008, my client in the British NHS system really didn’t like the term “implement.” One of the internal process improvement leads made a good case that the word “implementation” implied an effort that had an end...
Podcast #233 – Katie Anderson, A Lean Thinker Living in Japan
Today's guest is Katie Anderson, and we're talking about her experiences living in Tokyo for 18 months and what she's learning about Lean culture, Japanese culture, and how those aren't always one and the same...
How Kaizen is the Key to Northwestern’s Stellar Defense
Many of you don’t care about football, but you might find it interesting, as I did, to learn that Northwestern’s defensive coordinator Mike Hankwitz is apparently a fan of Kaizen...
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 #231 – Dr. Eric Dickson, Starting with Lean at UMass...
Today's guest is Eric Dickson,MD, MHCM, FACEP, the president and CEO of UMass Medical Center. Today's podcast is a recording of an interview that I did on stage at the 2015 Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, as part of the CEO panel I was moderating.
“Learning to be Lean” – An Inside Look at a Rapid...
There's a really good article that was published by Modern Healthcare as a special report, written by Sabriya Rice. Sabriya spent a week observing a rapid improvement event (RIE) at the Sts. Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center in Illinois. It's an in depth article that, I think, very accurately reflects the reality that Lean is helpful, but the process isn't easy for a number of reasons.
Can You Even Consider Kaizen When the Chart Showing Time and...
In th KaiNexus webinar that I did with Dr. Greg Jacobson earlier this week ("Making Time for For Continuous Improvement" - view the recording), I...
