I’m excited to share my breakout session at the Michigan Lean Consortium Annual Conference! In this session, I dive into the critical role of Psychological Safety as a Foundation for Continuous Improvement. We explore how fostering an environment where team…
I'm happy to share a link to a white paper that I co-authored for Catalysis (formerly the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value). The paper is titled: "Lean for Doctors." It's co-authored with Dr. John Toussaint and Dr. Jack Billi.
I’m in my home town of Livonia, Michigan this week, having arrived to the snow and cold yesterday, staying through Thursday. Boy, my blood has really “thinned out” from 15 years of mostly living in Texas or Arizona. I made…
If you liked my January 2011 podcast with Jack Billi, MD, from the University of Michigan Health System and Medical School, be sure to check out this free webinar on Monday, December 10, delivered by MIT: Lean Thinking in an…
If your organization blocks access to YouTube… shame on them. The videos I’m sharing here are two reasons you should insist they open access to the world of Lean healthcare education that exists there. Today, I’m sharing two videos produced…
Although I’ve lived in Texas since 1999 (other than a few years in Phoenix), Michigan is my home state, having grown up in Livonia (a Detroit suburb) from 1st grade through high school and then working there for two…
I’ve done a number of radio interviews recently to talk about our soon-to-be-released book Healthcare Kaizen. I haven’t posted them all here, but check out this page for links to what is already been aired (MP3 files). In at least…
Under Blog Break rules, I’ll just post this article that I was quoted extensively in: “Author: Hospitals can use lean techniques to drive improvements instead of dysfunction,” published in MedCity News. There is one slight error in the piece, where…
I grew up in Livonia, Michigan, where I was fortunate to have an outstanding public school education (without the district, to my knowledge, needing teacher “pay for performance” or such silliness during the 1980s). In the past year, I’ve heard…
Yesterday, the MIT SDM program hosted a webinar by Dr. Jack Billi from University of Michigan. I had the good fortune to meet Dr. Billi a few times during my involvement in the Healthcare Value Network. He is an extremely…
I’m in beautiful Traverse City, Michigan for a few days for the Michigan Lean Consortium annual conference. It’s my home state, so it’s great to see the collaboration around lean healthcare and lean, more generally. Michigan, along with other industrial…
If you’re in Michigan, come join me and a great crew for the first annual Michigan Lean Consortium conference near Traverse City, Aug 10 and 11. You can learn more in this PDF: MI Lean Conference Agenda 2011 FINAL and…
