Lean Blog Audio: Practical Lean Thinking, Psychological Safety, and Continuous Improvement

Each Saturday, I get an email newsletter from the UK-based site "Nursing Times." They cover issues that are somewhat universal in healthcare, including patient safety, healthcare culture, nursing shor...

1 Maalis 20167min

http://leanblog.org/audio125 The Spurs have had great players, but there's a culture of teamwork and unselfishness. The Spurs (after learning their lesson with Dennis Rodman) have learned to draft an...

25 Helmi 20167min

http://leanblog.org/audio124 I made a few tweaks to the content of the 3rd edition's "first pages" based on some input from Jamie Bonini, vice president of the TSSC group within Toyota. They are the ...

24 Helmi 20165min

This article posted anonymously on AllNurses.com has over one million views in the month since it first appeared:"Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!" It's an "Open Letter to Hospita...

23 Helmi 20167min

Engaging Staff in Improvement is Actually the Toyota Way, TooHere, I blogged about an article I read in Modern Healthcare that said, basically, Toyota isn't innovative and maybe therefore healthcare s...

12 Helmi 20166min

I wrote a new piece for LinkedIn that I hope would be of interest to you even if you’re in healthcare. Why? It’s a story about what an organization does when you don’t have enough (or any) direct work...

7 Helmi 20164min

I get asked a lot, "How do you know if a hospital is truly 'Lean?'"Nobody is ever perfect or "fully Lean," but you could ask, "How do you know if somebody is on a legitimate Lean transformation journe...

3 Helmi 20168min

Last year, Joe Swartz and I hosted a workshop at his organization, Franciscan St. Francis Health in Indianapolis. We called it“Kaizen Live!” and it was designed as an opportunity to see a culture of c...

1 Helmi 20165min