Tag: LEI

Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit 2012, Day 1

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Here are some notes and key points from Day 1 of the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. There are over 500 people here from North...

Healthcare Kaizen Update – Events, Galleys & Early Copies

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I'm really looking forward to next week's Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Minneapolis. Who else is going? I'll be blogging about it Wednesday through...

Registration Open for 2012 Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit

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For the third year, my good friends at the Lean Enterprise Institute, the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, and the Healthcare Value Network are...

“On the Mend” Wins Shingo Award

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Congratulations to Dr. John Toussaint and Roger Gerard, co-authors of the outstanding book,  On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the...

Podcast #137 – Jerry Bussell Discusses the Jacksonville Lean Consortium

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Listen: Episode #137 is a chat with Jerry Bussell, founder of the Jacksonville Lean Consortium. I've met and talked with Jerry many times through LEI,...

Collected Quality & Cost Results from Healthcare Value Network Members

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I was at the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value office a few months ago when Dr. John Toussaint reported that he had gotten a...

Be Careful When Going to the Gemba

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This is always a tongue-in-cheek warning, but there are times when I warn hospital leaders that they have to be careful when going to...

Beware Your Leadership Shadow

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Last week, at the 2nd annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, I moderated the CEO Panel discussion that featured four excellent Lean leaders: Jim FitzPatrick...

Mark Graban: Announcement on My Future Professional Direction (2011)

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Today, I'm announcing an evolution of my work life: doing less with the Lean Enterprise Institute, doing more consulting and speaking, and starting to...

Summit 2011: Lean Transformation Videos from St. Boniface Hospital

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We had a great first day at our Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Seattle (with lots of tweets from attendees you can follow along...

Podcast #118 – Jim Womack on GM, Toyota & Lean Six...

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Episode #118 is a follow-up to podcast #116 with  Jim Womack, founder and former Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Institute, now their Senior Advisor...

New DVD – “Thinking Lean at ThedaCare: Strategy Deployment”

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Sorry for what might seem like a very promotional post, but I'm happy to share some details with you about a project I've been...