Tag: Lean Design

The Power of Process: Interview With Matt Zayko and Eric Ethington

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guests for Episode #430 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast are Eric Ethington and Matt Zayko, the...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: December 20, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients It's been 20 years since To Err is Human, the seminal report from the Institute of Medicine, was released, estimating,...

Podcast #342 – Adam Ward on Lean Design in Healthcare

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

Lean as Redesign and Continuous Improvement, for Organizations or a Blog

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Lean sometimes gets, I think, an unfair rap that it’s only a method for incremental improvement. See this article, for example: “Limits of Lean — Transformative Care Redesign Must Go Beyond Typical Lean-Based Improvements.”

Lean is Not Just Process Improvement; It’s Much More Than That

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In my travels, I often meet people or visit organizations that say something like: "We're doing Lean... we just call it Process Improvement." They have a "Process Improvement" (PI) department...

Podcast #271 – Interview with Isaac Mitchell on Lean Design in...

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Joining me for Episode #271 is Isaac Mitchell (@IsaacMitchell), talking about Lean Design for healthcare, the Society for Health Systems, and more. Isaac is a...

Visiting the Gemba & Seeing a Growing Culture of Continuous Improvement...

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Recently, I wrote about an on-site event that I helped the Iowa Lean Consortium and Mary Greeley Medical Center (MGMC) organize... here is my first...

Lean Principles for Hospital Architecture and Design – A Podcast with...

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Joining me for Episode #265 of the podcast is Bernita Beikmann, AIA, EDAC, LSSBB, a Principal and Director of Lean Strategy at HKS, an international architecture...

1% Improvement Here and There Can Make a Big Difference in...

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

Part 3 of Day 1: Lean Healthcare Trip to China: Visuals,...

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Continuing to go through my notes, picking up from my last post... Visuals The presenter said something that's certainly a familiar challenge with facilities here in...

I Moderated a Lean Startup Webcast Today: “Speed as a Competitive...

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

Cleaning out the Backlog: 3P in the NHS, “Secret” HAI Weapons,...

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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...