Tag: Kaizen

Mark's Note: Today's guest post is by Joe Swartz, my co-author for the books  Healthcare Kaizen  and  The Executive Guide to Healthcare Kaizen. Joe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M582_E33aaM Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award recipients, Mark Graban and Joe Swartz, present a webinar regarding their book. "Healthcare Kaizen." Graban and Swartz will...

Last month, Joe Swartz and I presented a webinar for the newly renamed Shingo Institute about our  Healthcare Kaizen books. The Shingo Institute's new...

It's great to see CEOs blogging and sharing transparently on the web, sharing their views, stories, and opinions. Paul Levy was a real innovator...

They just started a year ago (better late than never?), but San Francisco General Hospital had its Lean efforts highlighted in the San Francisco...

Mark's note: What follows is a guest post by Keivan Zokaei about the necessary and unsurprisingly overlap between Lean principles and environmental stewardship. I...

In some  "Kaizen Kickoff" coaching that I've been doing recently, I've been spending time with managers and other leaders as they interact with...

Joining me for episode #187 is Joe Swartz, my friend and esteemed co-author of our books Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous...

While I'd be the first to admit that my writing is not perfect and I certainly need a copy editor for my books, I...

Mark's Note: Today's post is by a colleague from The Netherlands, Erwin Haas. Erwin is a leader in a Dutch consulting firm, NextChange, a...

Eiji Toyoda, a key figure in the growth and expansion of Toyota and the Toyota Production System practices has passed away this week, just...

My guest for episode #186 is my friend Jon Miller, CEO of Kaizen Institute and a long-time blogger at Gemba Panta Rei. Today, we're...