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

Here's my latest post for LinkedIn through their "Influencers" series. It might be old hat to readers of this blog, but I hope what I shared is useful for a wider audience that I have there.10 Key Lea...

25 Touko 201511min

http://leanblog.org/audio53 In my first post about the on-site Kaizen learning experience at Franciscan St. Francis Health, an event I came to call "Kaizen Live," I wrote about some of the initial pr...

19 Touko 20158min

http://leanblog.org/audio52 There's been a back and forth of views about the state of pediatric emergency medicine recently in the Wall St Journal.Let me start first, actually, with the more recent s...

18 Touko 20157min

Following up on yesterday's post on seemingly successful experiments with ACOs, here's another article, from HBR, on "safety huddles" in healthcare:"How Every Hospital Should Start the Day"

13 Touko 20156min

You might be considered "wonky" for enjoying the topics discussed here at LeanBlog.org... but that's fine. This is a safe environment for being wonky about Lean and improvement.From Vox.com, Sarah Kli...

12 Touko 20155min

http://leanblog.org/audio49 I was quoted in two articles that appeared in "Today's Hospitalist":"Discharging Mr. Wood: Time to get serious about waste" and "Standardized work: Improving quality by re...

5 Touko 20156min

http://leanblog.org/audio48 On April 22 and 23, I collaborated with Joe Swartz and a countless number of his colleagues to host 24 visitors from different health systems (and an Indiana state governm...

4 Touko 20159min

http://leanblog.org/audio47 One of the many things I admire about W. Edwards Deming is how hard he worked into his 90s. He must have had "pride and joy" in his own work.I learned from this IndustryWe...

3 Touko 20155min