I Was Asked to Share "Pet Peeves" About Lean (and Lean Sigma)
Thanks to GoLeanSixSigma.com for asking me some questions for a discussion that they've posted on their website.
23 Feb 20174min
If a Surgeon or Hospital Puts Quantity over Quality...
Today's Post in&t;50 Words: I get worked up about labeling a troubled surgical department as "a factory," but there are far more important issues of patient safety and hospital culture to be discussed...
22 Feb 20177min
The Advice about #Lean That Your Hospital CEO Should Be Getting
Art Byrne's latest book, The Lean Turnaround Action Guide, has a lot of great tips that he's trying to share, CEO to CEO. How many CEOs are reading this book and heeding his advice, in manufacturing o...
20 Feb 20175min
Registration is Open! "Kaizen Live!" at Franciscan
Registration is now open for our "Kaizen Live!" event, where you can visit Franciscan St. Francis Health in Indianapolis to see what a "culture of continuous improvement" is like in a way that will he...
13 Feb 20174min
Lessons Ford & the UAW Learned in Japan in 1981 Still Apply
Today's Post in&t;50 Words: I continue sharing documents from the Don Ephlin library archive. What did Ford and the UAW learn when they visited Japan in 1981? Many of the things that made Japanese ind...
12 Feb 20179min
#TBT: My Reflections on Dr. Deming's Notes...
Today's post points to my guest blog post for the W. Edwards Deming Institute: Reflections on Dr. Deming's Hospital Notes - What Has Changed Since 1990? Why do the same problems that Dr. Deming experi...
2 Feb 201710min
The Heroism of Incremental CarIe & Incremental Improvement
This post in&t;50 words: Are there parallels between medicine and organizations when we look at the tension between heroism and the sometimes boring work of preventing problems and improving things? I...
30 Jan 20179min
Lean as Redesign and Continuous Improvement,
Lean sometimes gets, I think, an unfair rap that it's only a method for incremental improvement. See this article, from the NEJM website, for example: "Limits of Lean -- Transformative Care Redesign M...
29 Jan 20178min
