Tag: Deming

When I recently did a Healthcare Kaizen workshop near Detroit, I invited an old friend of mine to attend as a guest. Marisa Smith, an...

I read this valid complaint from somebody on a LinkedIn group.... it led to a "facepalm" that I managed to catch on camera: I interviewed with...

I was able to tour the NUMMI factory in 2005, which I really enjoyed (see my series of blog posts here). NUMMI was, of...

Thanks everybody for reading my blog in 2013! I appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to read and participate in the...

In the Lean methodology, building upon the teachings of Dr. W. Edwards Deming, we work hard to shift away from "naming, blaming, and shaming."...

For my latest "LinkedIn Influencer" post, I was asked to participate in a series about "The Book that Changed Me." I chose to highlight not...

Thankfully, it was nothing harmful or that dangerous... but I committed a medical mistake on myself last Saturday. I tweaked my lower back last Wednesday...

Today is Veterans Day in the U.S. and it's also Remembrance Day in Canada, the UK, and the Commonwealth countries. The poppy  pin is...

Thanks to the organizing sponsor Protegra and other sponsors, including my friends at LeanKit, for having me give a keynote talk about the Software...

Eiji Toyoda, a key figure in the growth and expansion of Toyota and the Toyota Production System practices has passed away this week, just...

When the book Lean Thinking (by Jim Womack and Dan Jones) was originally published in 1996, it seems likely that hardly anyone was applying Lean principles in healthcare. Sure, you had organizations applying TQM or CQI principles (or even some of the lessons of Dr. W. Edwards Deming). Joan Wellman did some of her first Lean healthcare experiments in 1995, but there weren't any "Lean healthcare" case studies yet. What does their book say?

QHSE Focus, an iPad magazine, asked me to contribute a piece on Lean healthcare. They published my piece titled, "Employee & Patient Safety: The Only...