Tag: Problem Solving

Management’s Job is to be Proactive

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Running a hospital: Our Joint Commission Report The headline is my modification of a Deming expression, that management's job is prediction. Statistical process control was...

Great Piece on Problem Solving

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Elegant Solutions: Mind of the Innovator Matthew May is the author of the book The Elegant Solution, a friend of this blog, and a blogger...

Let’s Try a "5 Whys" Survey

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Following up on the LEI survey that was released and discussed here, I've been talking with a few folks offline about what the "root...

“No fault, just an accident”

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Explosions rock downtown Dallas | Latest News | WFAA.com Working from home with this news on in the background, the massive gas cylinder explosions at...

The Lean Toolbox: Where is the thinking cap?

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By Bryan Lund:For the full article, click here for a PDF fileThe Lean toolbox is brimming with attractive tools and if you are like...

Lack of Error Proofing Kills 3 Babies

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This is an incredibly sad, and completely preventable, situation. Three babies are dead, and three more injured, because the wrong drug was administered...