Tag: Deming
Another CEO Talk: “Can I Say That?”
The final keynote talk at the recent Society for Health Systems / ASQ Healthcare conference was given by Dr. Barry Silbaugh, a former hospital...
A Lean Guy Goes to #HIMSS10 Part 1
I'm about conferenced out! First was the excellent SHS/ASQ conference on healthcare operations improvement (read my posts), then the HIMSS conference focused on heathcare...
Re-visiting Chapter 2 of Out of the Crisis (Part 1)
Continuing my series on re-reading Dr. W. Edwards Deming's book Out of the Crisis, I'm posting a series of tweets from the Chapter along...
Arbitrary Targets at DFW – What About Your Organization?
As I've been re-reading Dr. Deming's Out of the Crisis, stuff like this jumps out at me more and more. I saw similar signs...
Everyone Deserves to do Quality Work – From Kitchen Nightmare to...
A new season of Gordon Ramsay's "Kitchen Nightmares" show has started on Fox. This show is still my favorite "business" show on TV, as...
Revisiting and Re-reading Dr. Deming’s “Out of the Crisis” – Chapter...
For a number of reasons, I've decided to re-read my copy of one of the most influential books I've ever read: Out of the...
Data vs. Facts, Illustrated
Two expressions get used often in the lean world, one from Dr. W. Edwards Deming and one from Toyota's Taiichi Ohno. Dr. Deming was...
A Pop-Culture “PDCA” Cycle?
A few random thoughts from being on the couch all day Sunday, catching up on work and watching a bit of NFL football. One,...
Of Course An Individual Got Blamed for this TSA Airport Security...
Update (1/7/10): Turns out the TSA agent walked away from his post. I'd certainly hold someone accountable for that, since it was a conscious...
10 Things I Wish Lean Practitioners Wouldn’t Say in 2010
In the blog tradition of "Top 10" lists (and "do not say" lists, like this one from Time or this workplace list from CNN),...
Are Slogans Always Bad or Can They Inspire?
Many of you know I'm an alum of Northwestern University, graduating just prior to the Rose Bowl season of 1995. I'm a huge NU...
Reducing Medication Waste for VA Patients
Obama Awards Budget-Minded Federal Employee
I saw this in the news yesterday about a federal employee from the VA, Nancy Fichtner, a clerk at the...
