Lean Design

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients It's been 20 years since To Err is Human, the seminal…

My guest for Episode #342 of the podcast is Adam Ward, the author of Lean Design in Healthcare: A Journey to…

Lean sometimes gets, I think, an unfair rap that it’s only a method for incremental improvement. See this article,…

In my travels, I often meet people or visit organizations that say something like: "We're doing Lean... we just…

Joining me for Episode #271 is Isaac Mitchell (@IsaacMitchell), talking about Lean Design for healthcare, the…

Recently, I wrote about an on-site event that I helped the Iowa Lean Consortium and Mary Greeley Medical Center …

Joining me for Episode #265 of the podcast is Bernita Beikmann, AIA, EDAC, LSSBB, a Principal and…

I was fortunate to take a nearly two-week vacation recently, a trip that included a week in France. My wife and…

Continuing to go through my notes, picking up from my last post... Visuals The presenter said something that's…

I've been intrigued by the "Lean Startup" movement since I first saw Eric Ries speak at MIT back in late 2009.…

As I sometimes do, I'm going to close out a bunch of browser tabs (which makes my Mac run faster) and I'll do that…

Here's an article that summarizes the pocket of Lean healthcare activity in and around Winona and LaCrosse,…

It's easy for people to think that Lean is about cost-cutting. That would be wrong, but many people associate Lean…

My life and work takes me to interesting places. In late 2012, I was able to visit Japan for the first time,…

After some supporters of the Saskatchewan Lean healthcare efforts reached out to me, I've been trying to…

A few weeks back, USA Today published an article that made me think of some of the approaches being used by…

A new tower opened at Seattle Children's Hospital two days ago, built with "Lean Design" principles and methods, as…

I was fortunate to have three interviews published in the past week, where I was talking about Lean Healthcare and…