What is your role at work? Your purpose? Those questions might make you really stop and think. I sat in yesterday on a class, taught by an ex-Toyota leader, that raised a number of thought-provoking questions about Lean and the…
One project I’m involved with at the LEI is an online video education event on the topic of “strategy deployment,” confusing known also as “hoshin kanri” or “hoshin planning” or “policy deployment.” I know, let’s pick a name already. This…
This article from Detroit’s Crain’s Business Journal (“Lean machine: Health care follows auto’s lead, gears up for efficiency”) highlights a growing lean healthcare movement in my home state of Michigan, one that, ironically, traces its origins back to Toyota General…
Happy New Year to my blog readers! Do you have any “lean resolutions” for the year 2010? Feel free to share them, if you like, in the comments section for this post. Here were some resolutions from two years ago,…
Mistake Proofing Webinar — Sadly, links are now broken and I’m trying to fix that… I’m producing a free webinar through LEI on Mistake-Proofing to Reduce Medical Errors. This will be given on December 10th by Prof. John Grout of Berry…
Here is a YouTube video done by the Lean Enterprise Institute with one of my favorite people in the Lean world, Sami Bahri, D.D.S., the “World’s First Lean Dentist” from Jacksonville, FL. The questions in the video include: Why did…
Key Concepts of Lean in Healthcare Blatant self-promotion time: I will be teaching this workshop for the second time (after the Philly debut last month) in Cambridge at the LEI office December 2 and 3. Here is a video where…
Here is a video from Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital (HDGH) in Windsor, Ontario Canada about their Lean effort, the video is part of their main Lean page. The video starts with John Shook talking about the real definition of “Lean” (it’s…
Womack on Lean Management, A Live Web Event We are running an experiment at the Lean Enterprise Institute. Jim Womack, founder and chairman of LEI, will be doing a two-hour live video presentation on October 13 at 11 am eastern.…
As I had alluded to the other day, there was a huge investigative piece that ran across the country Sunday in the Hearst Newspapers. The main URL for the series is www.DeadByMistake.com. You can read all of the articles at…
While in the UK recently, I met Michael Balle, the author of the Shingo Prize winning book The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround. He has a new book (published by LEI, my employer) just out this week called…
Key Concepts of Lean in Healthcare – lean.org As part of my role with the Lean Enterprise Institute, I am developing a two-day intro course that’s designed for people in healthcare. The link to the course is above. You can…
