Tag: Kaizen

Hi, this is Dr. Les Muda, the world's first (and only) Lean healthcare comedian, taking over Mark's blog today for a guest post about...

When I teach and coach people on the "Kaizen" style of continuous improvement, I emphasize that what I'm teaching them isn't perfect and it's...

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

Following up on my previous posts (here and here) on a recent visit to the Northern California Wine Country, I'm going to share a...

One feature of the website for our  Healthcare Kaizen books  has been the ability for people to share an example of a Kaizen improvement...

It's been just over five years since the first edition of my book  Lean Hospitals was released and just over a year since  Healthcare...

I've recently been reading an enjoyable book by Peter Sims, Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries. The practice of Kaizen, of course,...

Hat tip to Tony Manos of 5S Supply for sharing (via twitter) this interesting table that shows how a few minutes (or even a...

Last Wednesday, Dr. Greg Jacobson and I gave a webinar for Gemba Academy titled Leadership Behaviors that Create a Culture of Continuous Improvement. You can...

I'm going to be participating in two webinars this week (including one that is also a live presentation in Austin). Tuesday August 13: HIMSS Meeting...

I'm driving all over the state of Ohio this week, teaching three different workshops on Kaizen and Lean Healthcare with my friends at TechSolve....

I just read Dr. Atul Gawande's latest piece in the New Yorker: "Slow Ideas:  Some innovations spread fast. How do you speed the ones...