Measures, Incentives, Heart Attack Mortality, Driving
In this post, I look at the impact (or lack thereof) of targets, rankings, and incentives, when it comes to safe driving or PCI (angioplasty) procedures in a hospital cath lab. Are we improving? How d...
5 Apr 201713min
Coming Soon– 4th Revised Ed. of “Lean Hospitals” (April Fool)
It's time for another new, revised edition of my book! It was originally published in 2008 as Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction.
4 Apr 20177min
Sad Bloomberg BusinessWeek Article on Auto Supplier Safety
A few of you sent me this article... and you were correct to think I would be interested:"Inside Alabama's Auto Jobs Boom: Cheap Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs The South's manufacturing renais...
27 Mars 20179min
10 Years of "L.A.M.E."
It's been 10 years since I first wrote about my awkward acronym L.A.M.E. Is it helpful to distinguish between true Lean principles and "Lean As Misguidedly Explained?" Will we see more L.A.M.E. talk a...
21 Mars 20179min
New Whitepaper: "#Lean for Doctors"
Today, I'm happy to share a link to a white paper that I co-authored for Catalysis (formerly the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value).The paper is titled: "Lean for Doctors." Appropriately, the co-...
10 Mars 20174min
#TBT: Don't Blame the Kicker, Don't Blame...
Today's Post in&t;50 words: Lean thinkers don't blame individuals who in a bad system, whether that's a presenter at Oscars, a kicker in a football game, or a healthcare professional in a hospital.
9 Mars 20177min
Personal Kaizen: How I Reduced Effort...
In today's post, I write about how Kaizen starts with you. I share some examples of "personal Kaizen," including the way I've streamlined my call scheduling process, for my benefit and for others. ht...
8 Mars 20178min
Learning & Emulating Without Copying Blindly from...
While I'm writing here about Northwestern men's basketball learning from Duke (without copying everything), the same ideas apply if you're Ford learning from Toyota or a hospital learning from ThedaCa...
6 Mars 201711min
