There’s a long-standing argument that I’ve been dragged into with a group that calls itself “new systems thinkers.” They loudly criticize Lean as being altogether awful (with the alternative, predictably, being their services). One of them wrote a blog post about why nurses should reject lean – you can likely find it via this Google search). I agrees strongly that sometimes Lean is “done badly” — these are instances of what Bob Emiliani calls “fake … Continue reading Why Nurses Should Reject “LAME” and Demand Lean