PDSA

Reminder: I'm doing a free mini-workshop in Austin tonight if you're in the area. There's still time to sign up.…

This recent tweet of mine struck a nerve, apparently, based on the number of times it was liked and retweeted --…

Mark's note: Today's post is by Cristal Totterman, a pharmacist and Lean leader I have known for a couple of years…

In today's post, I write about how Kaizen starts with you. I share some examples of "personal Kaizen," including…

Are there parallels between medicine and organizations when we look at the tension between heroism and the…

You might remember the hubbub (a kerfuffle?) over the NEJM opinion piece written by Dr. Jerome Groopman and Dr.…

After the previous CEO of JC Penney, Ron Johnson, was fired (see my post "Lack of PDSA made JCP CEO SOL?"), it…

Each Saturday, I get an email newsletter from the UK-based site "Nursing Times." Last week, this article, caught my…

Yesterday, I wrote Part 1 of this post on the Cleveland Clinic Improvement Model. Part 1 covered the left hand half…

On Tuesday, I hosted, via KaiNexus, a webinar with Jon Miller on the important topic of "Practical Problem…

I love the show "Silicon Valley" and I just "binge watched" all ten episodes of Season 2 while traveling home from…

Thanks to my friends in the Michigan Quality System group, the internal Lean group at the University of Michigan…

When I teach about Kaizen and continuous improvement, I try to use scenarios and cases to help people think through…

You might be considered "wonky" for enjoying the topics discussed here at LeanBlog.org... but that's fine. This is…

Did you see last Thursday's Dilbert? The first panel is pictured at left. Visit dilbert.com to see the whole…

I wanted to share a recent Kaizen improvement story that I heard from a hospital. Great things can happen when we:…