Tag: Kaizen

What People Say is Their “Biggest Challenge Related to Innovation and...

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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...

Continuously Improving our KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Webinars

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For the past few years, Dr. Greg Jacobson and I have worked closely together to create and deliver our continuous improvement webinars. We try...

My Thoughts on “10 Ideas That Hospital and Health System CEOs...

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I saw this piece by Bob Herman at Becker's Hospital Review and ended up writing a blog post here instead of writing a long...

Why Isn’t the “Idea Driven Organization” More Common?

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Mark's Note: This is a guest post from an old friend of the blog, Mark Edmondson. See his older guest posts from years back....

Lean Healthcare Study Tour – Join Me in November 2014

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You might remember that I partnered with Kaizen Institute about two years ago to do their first "Lean Healthcare Study Tour" to Japan. I...

My Personal Kaizen on Scheduling Meetings – Fewer Emails and Less...

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One of the key aspects of the Kaizen process is that we SHARE completed improvements with others. That's a key principle that Joe Swartz and...

Spurs Win the NBA Title: Systems, Learning, Teamwork, & Leadership

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Since my wife and I moved to San Antonio just over two years ago, we've become big Spurs fans. Since the Spurs are the...

Visiting Two Japanese Hospitals with an Eye for Lean; I Can’t...

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In November 2012, I had the opportunity to visit Japan for the first time as part of a Lean healthcare study mission. It was...

Cleaning out the Backlog: Krafcik, Email, Lincoln, Leadership, Humility, Patient Falls

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As I sometimes do, I'm going to close out a bunch of browser tabs and share some articles that caught my eye recently but...

Podcast #201 – The KaiNexus WorkOut Process at Mary Greeley Medical...

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Listen: Joining me for episode #201 are Ron Smith, a Process Improvement Coordinator/Lean Facilitator at Mary Greeley Medical Center (in Iowa) and Suz Kaprich, a consultant...

Live Blogging Day 1: Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit 2014

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Today is the first day of the 5th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. Follow along on Twitter with hashtag #HCSummit14 to see my tweets and thoughts from others....

Video: Toyota Helps Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Their Eye Clinic

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California week on the blog continues after yesterday's post about Lean at San Francisco General Hospital. Today, I'm flying to Los Angeles to attend the...
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