Tag: Culture
Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson on Continuous Improvement
There's a great piece, currently available for free on the HBR website, about continuous improvement:
The Culture to Cultivate
The author, George Halvorson, is the recently...
Podcast #178 – Drew Greenblatt, President of Marlin Wire on Lean...
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Joining me for Podcast #178 is Drew Greenblatt, President and Owner of Marlin Steel Wire Products, a manufacturing company based in Baltimore. I was...
Nice Toyota Production System Intro Video from the UK
A Toyota employee, pictured at left, pulls an andon cord in a video shared by Toyota UK: Factory to Forecourt - Introduction to the...
Have Staff Really Lost Sight of the Patient Experience?
Dr. Delos ("Toby") Cosgrove, President and CEO of the famed Cleveland Clinic, wrote an article on LinkedIn recently: "Patient Experience: Time for Hospitals to...
Toyota’s Jamie Bonini on Organizational Culture
Last week at the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, I really enjoyed the presentation by Jamie Bonini, General Manager of the Toyota Production System Support...
Lean Thinking (Finally?) Gets to Chrysler Windsor Plant?
This article appeared back in March... March of 2013... as in this year: "Windsor Chrysler workers reduce waste to be world class." I mean,...
A Lean Guy Watches CBC’s “Rate My Hospital”
"Approximately 8 to 10% of the individuals who walk through our doors are being hurt by us," says David Musyj, CEO of Windsor Regional...
Shorter MD Intern Work Hours – Quality Has Gotten Worse (Unless...
In recent years, there's been a movement away from having first-year residents work such long grueling hours - 24 hour shifts or longer, multiple...
Stephen Parry, on His Book ‘Sense and Respond,’ How Lean Engages...
My guest for episode #170 is Stephen Parry, joining us from England. He is a keynote speaker at the upcoming Lean Kanban North America...
Kaizen Questions… What If?
When I talk to people about the Kaizen approach to continuous improvement, with my consulting hat on or in my role with KaiNexus, I...
Lean is Patient, Lean is Kind
Today I'm linking to a guest post that I wrote for my friend Marc Rouppe van der Voort who works at St. Elisabeth Hospital...
Podcast #168 – Carolyn McCulley, “Breaking the Wall of Silence”
My guest for episode #168 is Carolyn McCulley, from CityGate Films, and she is a co-director and producer of the upcoming documentary called "Breaking...
