Tag: Kaizen
KaiNexus Education Video #5 – Moving Beyond Suggestion Boxes
Here is the fifth in our series of short, simple Kaizen education videos from KaiNexus, a software startup where I am on the management team....
How Paul Akers Built a Culture of Daily Improvement with 2...
Our guest for episode #136 is Paul Akers, President of FastCap and author of the book 2 Second Lean.
Here, we are talking about...
Guest Post: Is your management system the constraint in Kaizen?
Mark's note: Today's guest post by Bart Sellers is a timely contribution to follow up to yesterday's post about the ThedaCare Business Performance System...
A Nice Kaizen Example from the PACU
"Kaizen" is a Japanese word that means "change for the better" in the context of ongoing "continuous improvement." The so-called "kaizen event," a weeklong...
Suggestion Boxes are Disliked & Ineffective Around the World
I love employee ideas and continuous improvement, but I really dislike suggestion boxes. As I've said, they are well intended, but the whole suggestion...
An Inc. “Best Small Company Workplace” & Their Lean Culture
As I was cleaning out a pile of stuff in my office, I found an unread issue of Inc. magazine from June 2011. One...
Kaizen Videos from a Franciscan “Kaizeneer”
My Healthcare Kaizen co-author Joe Swartz works in Indianapolis in the Franciscan St. Francis Health System. They use the term "kaizeneer" to describe those...
Book Review: One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen...
While doing research for my upcoming book on "Healthcare Kaizen," I found two books that touched on kaizen-style continuous improvement in our everyday lives....
Will Suggestion Boxes be a Trend in 2012? What Method(s) do...
I saw this article the other day on BusinessInsider.com: "10 Predictions For How The Workplace Will Change In 2012."
Two of the predictions caught my...
Podcast #133 – Mark Graban, Healthcare Kaizen Webinar Q&A Session with...
Episode #133 is hosted by Ron Pereira, from Gemba Academy, as he leads me through additional Q&A as a follow up to our recent...
A Good Lean Healthcare Journal Article with a Puzzling Title
Thanks to the readers who sent this article my way and thanks to the authors for mentioning and citing my book, Lean Hospitals. The...
Webinar Recording from a University of Michigan Health System Lean Leader
Yesterday, the MIT SDM program hosted a webinar by Dr. Jack Billi from University of Michigan. I had the good fortune to meet Dr....