Tag: A3

A Lean Guy Visits Scott & White Hospital – Leader Standard...

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Hosted by Steve Hoeft, author of the book Stories from My Sensei: Two Decades of Lessons Learned Implementing Toyota-Style Systems, I had a chance...

Toyota Brings TPS & The Toyota Way to India – The...

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Here's a fascinating article: "How Toyota brought its famed manufacturing method to India." The piece starts with a story about a classic Toyota management practice...

Start 2013 with “The Spirit of Kaizen”

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As we enter the new year, it's a great time to reflect back on 2012 - what worked and what didn't work... what do...

The Newtown Tragedy – Our National Response and Problem Solving

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As are many people across the United States and around the world, I'm saddened by the violence that claimed so many lives Friday in...

Videos: Lean in Daily Work at the University of Michigan Health...

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If your organization blocks access to YouTube... shame on them. The videos I'm sharing here are two reasons you should insist they open access...

A Hard Habit to Break

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No, this isn't a post about the the 80s Chicago tune "Hard Habit to Break." It's about individual habits related to problem solving that...

Two Lean Jobs in the New York HHC

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The country's largest public health system, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation has two Lean healthcare jobs available and they've asked me...

Continuing Experiments in Self Publishing & Lean Publishing

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After my first experiment with the great Leanpub.com service (my "Best of Lean Blog 2011" eBook), I was happy to see my good friend...

Guest Post: The Chain of Improvement

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Mark's note: Today's guest post is from  Dr. Mark Jaben. I first met Mark in person at  Cindy Jimmerson's Lean Healthcare West conference in...

April Fool 2011: New “A3” App Utilizes Two iPads & Virtual...

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Today, I'm happy to bring you an interview, conducted via Skype Chat, with Baka Eipuriru, inventor of a new iPad app called "A3 Sensei."...

Updating “A Vision for a Lean Hospital”

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I am working on finishing up the revised and updated edition of my first book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction....

Reader Question: Support and “First Responders” for Healthcare Professionals

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Here is a new reader question from Steve Palmreuter in Michigan. He raises a topic that I've been thinking about lately, so I'm happy...