Great Questions for Reflection — At the Start of the Year or Anytime
These are great questions to ask at the end of the year... or at the end of a project, after a Kaizen Event, or…
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This WSJ Article About Lean Isn’t Terrible (Thanks to GE and CEO Larry Culp)
The Wall Street Journal has an epic track record when it comes to always getting it wrong when they write about…
Operational Excellence Mixtape: Best of 2020
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing…
Operational Excellence Mixtape: June 5, 2020
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this...
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Electronic…
Podcast #347 — Brad Parsons, Hospital CEO & Co-Author of…
Our guest today for Episode 347 is Brad Parsons, the CEO of NEA Baptist, in Jonesboro, Arkansas. NEA Baptist…
Podcast #346 — Mark Ryan, Transformation, Kaizen, and Management at…
Joining me for Episode 346 of the podcast is Mark Ryan, a Transformation Coach and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt…
How PBCs (Process Behavior Charts) Can Enhance the Practice of OKRs (Objectives…
Over the past year, I've heard about the "OKRs" methodology that is used in tech companies like Google. OKRs…
Webinar Preview: Jess Orr on Applying Hoshin Kanri to Your Personal Improvement
Happy New Year! It's a time of year when we think about improvement and goals for the year. We do this in our…
Hear Jeff Hunter’s Thoughts on “Putting Strategy Back Into Strategy…
Today's post is the transcript of a discussion that I recently recorded with Jeff Hunter, the author of the book …
Podcast #312 – Jeff Hunter on “Patient-Centered Strategy”
Joining me today for Episode #312 of the podcast is Jeff Hunter, author of the excellent book "Patient-Centered…
Podcast #286 – Dean Gruner, MD on ThedaCare’s #Lean Journey
My guest for Episode #286 is Dean Gruner, MD, the recently retired CEO of ThedaCare, a health system in Wisconsin…
#TBT: Part 2, A Year of KaiNexus Webinars, July through December, Lean, Change,…
Following up on last week's post where I shared KaiNexus webinars from the first half of the year....
Again, one…
Practicing What We Preach at KaiNexus, Learning & Sharing
This week is our 2nd annual KaiNexus User Conference, in Austin... with customers and those who are about to become…
“Everything You Need to Know About Strategy Deployment” –…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQJwr_0p7J8
Presented by Mark Graban on July 27, 2016.
In this webinar, you…
Strategy Deployment as a Series of Hypotheses or Predictions (Part 2)
Here is the EXTREMELY belated Part 2 of my post, started in January 2015 with Part 1, on Strategy Deployment (SD)…
Cleveland Clinic Improvement Model, Part 1: Alignment & Visual Management
Back in November, I had a chance to meet Nate Hurle, from Cleveland Clinic, as he was giving a presentation…
Key Tweets from @MarkGraban – Week of February 16, 2015, #SHS2015 Edition
Here's the latest installment of "Key Tweets," a post that summarizes some of my tweets (or retweets) from the…
[Video] Kim Barnas on Moving Beyond Heroics and on to Lean Management
Today, I'm traveling to Orlando for the annual Society for Health Systems conference. I hope to see some of you…