Tag: Deming
MD Anderson Presentation: W. Edwards Deming: The Man and the Message
MD Anderson Cancer Center shares a lot of great material online and at conferences. here is an audio presentation (with slides) by Doris Quinn,...
Looking at Medical Mistakes – Learning and Preventing or Repeating?
Working in healthcare, it's hard not finding stories about preventable errors. I keep hearing stories from friends and family - such as my relative...
ASQ Influential Voices: Quality & Social Responsibility (& Lean)
In this month's ASQ blog post, their CEO Paul Borawski writes a new post "The Intersection of Quality and Social Responsibility," where he defines...
“Blame & Shame” is Shameful
Many leaders in healthcare (including John Toussaint, Paul Levy, and others) are working to eliminate the "name, blame, and shame" culture that often exists...
Jerks Can Be Creativity Killers, Alright
Saw this in the most recent Fast Company:
Is Your Manager A Creativity Killer?
If the manager is something like a case study from...
Analyzing the Kaizen Improvements in Our Book “Healthcare Kaizen”
I went through our new book Healthcare Kaizen to categorize the different improvement examples in the book...
We have, by my count, 124 examples from...
The Passing of Dr. Genichi Taguchi: January 1, 1924 – June...
ASQ and others have announced the passing of a quality legend, Dr. Genichi Taguchi, in Japan, at age 88.
Dr. Taguchi is known for, among...
Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit 2012, Day 1
Here are some notes and key points from Day 1 of the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. There are over 500 people here from North...
Lean on Alaska Public Radio
After meeting him at a conference a few years back, I consider Patrick Anderson, executive director of Chugatchmiut, to be a good friend in...
My Flight Attendants Coffee Kaizen: A Lean Journey in the Skies
As a very frequent flyer on American Airlines, I've learned not to expect much from the company and its employees in terms of customer...
Robert Andino of the Baltimore Orioles & Dr. W. Edwards Deming
Dr. W. Edwards Deming famously said that managers can't hope to motivate employees, as they can only hope to not demotivate them. I wrote...
Podcast #143 – Mark Graban & Ron Pereira (Gemba Academy): SPC...
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Like podcast #133, this episode is a Q&A that follows up a webinar I did for my good friends at Gemba Academy recently, on...