Training Within Healthcare
Training Within Healthcare (TWI Newsletter) – PDF File It’s been a busy week, helping spread the word about Lean healthcare in Puerto Rico, something I’ll be able to blog about soon. So, I’ll be lazy and post an article I…
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Sad: One in Five Nurses Quits Within a Year
Amid nurse shortage, hospitals focus on retention I’ve heard a similar theme before — the problem isn’t that we need to graduate more nurses, we need to just quit losing so many from the field. Newly minted nurse Katie O’Bryan…
A Review of "Lean Hospitals"
Training Within Industry – TWI Blog: Lean Book Review: Lean Hospitals by Mark Graban Bryan Lund, over at the TWI Blog has written a very thoughtful review of my book, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction. His…
Future Speaking Gigs
I’m fortunate to have a few private speaking gigs in the coming months (a hospital in Iowa, an online presentation for an engineering student group at Utah State University, and an MBA operations class at Wharton). I do have a…
The "LAME" Cargo Cult and Lean
I stumbled across a piece Richard Feynman spoke some time ago about “Cargo Cult Science” and couldn’t help but extend the analogy to “Cargo Cult Lean”, or as Mark’s named it, “LAME: Lean as Mistakenly Executed.” First off, what is…
TWI at Energizer Battery
IndustryWeek : Introducing Training Within Industry Our friend Bryan Lund is featured in this interview with IndustryWeek (click here to subscribe) about the Training Within Industry Program. I love the focus on developing people: IW: What do you hope to…
Intro to TWI Presentation
TWI Summit – Training within Industry Home Courtesy of the folks at the Training Within Industry Summit (being held May 6-7 in Orland, FL). My schedule will prevent me from attending or I would go… TWI is very applicable, even…
TWI Job Instruction Method for Healthcare
TWI Blog Thanks to Bryan for sending this along. The link above is to his site, which has a link to a PDF file that is the healthcare adaptation of the “Job Instruction” method in the old (but revitalized) Training…
The making of a UPS driver
FORTUNE Magazine – November 12, 2007 I always enjoy reading about UPS, with their roots and background of strong Industrial Engineering. Not Lean, per se, but a strong focus on finding the best way to do things. This article from…
New TWI Blog
TWI Blog Since it is “introduce you to new blogs day” apparently, here is a new blog focused on the Training Within Industry methodology. It is put together by regular Lean Blog reader and commenter Bryan Lund. The blog is…
TWI Webcast this Week
IndustryWeek : Foundations of the Toyota Production System: Establish Standardized Work & Sustain Your Lean Initiative with TWI Training I’m hoping to attend this online, or at least I’ll watch the archive. This Webcast will also feature Patrick Graupp, who…
LeanBlog Podcast #31 — David Meier on ‘Toyota Talent,’ Standardization, and the San Antonio Plant
Listen: LeanBlog Podcast #31 is a discussion with David Meier, most recently the co-author of the book Toyota Talent, written with Dr. Jeffrey Liker. In this podcast, we discuss the topics from Toyota Talent, including standardized work and how to…
