Tag: Six Sigma

Philip Holt on Leading and Living Lean, With Simplicity

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #460 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Philip Holt. He is...

Interview with Bella Englebach on The Edges of Lean and More

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #440 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Bella Englebach, the Lead...

Podcast #384 — Craig Gygi on the “Truth About Data”

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Joining me today for Episode #384 of the podcast is Craig Gygi, co-author of the book Six Sigma for Dummies. He also managing principal...

Companies in Action for Racial Equity (C.A.R.E.)™

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Are you a business or an institution that is ready to move beyond a nicely worded statement about diversity, equity and inclusion? Here are...

Learning Process Behavior Charts and the More Difficult Challenge of Unlearning...

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Thanks to ASQ for asking me to write this article for their "Statistics Digest" newsletter in October of 2019 - click here to access...

Episode #9 of the “Lean Whiskey” Podcast: Affordable Bourbon, Halloween, Air...

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It's great to have Jamie Flinchbaugh back for another episode of the Lean Whiskey podcast. We linked up on Halloween night to share a...

Podcast #346 — Mark Ryan, Transformation, Kaizen, and Management at Franciscan...

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Joining me for Episode 346 of the podcast is Mark Ryan, a Transformation Coach and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt at Franciscan Health. Mark will...

Why Lean Manufacturing… is Less Fun Than Google Autocomplete?

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There's a fun game you can play online in your browser... and it's free. Start typing a phrase into the Google search box (or into...

Not All Improvement Ideas Require “Projects”

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In this post, I share some thoughts and build upon one of the presentations at last week's Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, where, Tim Pehrson, a regional CEO for Intermountain Healthcare, talked about how they piloted a continuous improvement process in one region... and how they're now spreading it throughout the system. This leads to confusion, in online discussion, about terms like projects, suggestions, ideas, and such...

What Did People Want to Talk About? Open Space & #Lean...

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Yesterday, Isaac Mitchell and I asked a group of Society for Health Systems Conference attendees what they wanted to talk about with peers and colleagues in the room. Here’s that list and how the discussion was structured…

Do We Want The Same Results?

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Thanks to Sam Selay for today's guest post. Although he's writing about the government and the military, I think you'll find it interesting regardless of your industry. Read an excerpt from Sam's chapter of Practicing Lean.

Podcast #274 – Jay Arthur, “Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals”

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My guest for Episode #274 of the podcast is Jay Arthur, author of Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals: Improving Patient Safety, Patient Flow and the Bottom Line, Second Edition. To me, "Lean Sigma" is often a controversial topic... not because anything is wrong with Six Sigma…