Tag: Kaizen

Organizations that are most successful with Kaizen and continuous improvement don't have fancier boards or better software -- they have leaders who are more...

Last weekend was the start of the college football season (Go 'Cats!) and tonight is the "kickoff" of the NFL season, which (of course)...

I didn't have a post yesterday because it was the Labor Day holiday here in the U.S. While I'm not a "worker," in the...

This announcement caught my eye recently: "New site lets you tell your boss anything, anonymously." A startup's website allows you to send anonymous ideas or...

If your organization blocks access to YouTube... shame on them. The videos I'm sharing here are two reasons you should insist they open access...

Thanks to Karen Martin for hosting yesterday's webinar that I gave based on my book (with Joe Swartz)  Healthcare Kaizen. The title was somewhat...

Free Webinar on Tuesday, August 21, 2 pm ET I will be giving a free webinar titled: Healthcare Kaizen: The Suggestion Box is Dead If you can't...

Last week, I blogged about the 1989 New England Journal of Medicine article by Dr. Donald M. Berwick, "Continuous Improvement as an Ideal in...

This isn't a story about my frustration with a State of Texas office... it's mainly a story about a failed "kaizen"-style improvement attempt that...

I hope you'll join me and a lot of Lean friends at the 2012 Northeast Shingo Prize Conference, to be held in Worcester, MA...

In the "Lean Startup" parlance, our startup KaiNexus is not going into an existing market - we are working to develop a new market...

Joining me for Podcast #153 is Robert Maurer, PhD,  Director of Behavioral Sciences for the Family Practice Residency Program at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center...