Tag: Government

I was at the annual HIMSS  Conference yesterday, as a guest of the software company FormFast, giving short 10-minute talks about Lean Healthcare...

It's sort of cliche' to complain about long lines at the U.S. Post Office , along with generally surly or disinterested employees. My buddy John...

Here's a hilarious, yet somewhat sad, story that will instantly resonate with students of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. From Poland -- police officers in the...

Following up my notes from Day 1, I'm sharing my notes from the second full day I attended on Wednesday, December 8 2010. Here, in...

I've written occasionally about Lean efforts in government (see a list of posts here). There are formal Lean government efforts at varying levels of...

As I blogged about on Friday, I was back at my alma mater, Northwestern, for a football game this weekend-- well, actually, I was...

This headline jumped out at me: "Local hospital receives $500,000 to train workers." What also jumped out at me, in the article, is that the...

My guest for Episode #102 is Ron Wince, the President/CEO of Guidon Performance Solutions. We talk here about his views on lean healthcare and...

I was a supporter of Dr. Donald Berwick's nomination to head CMS (Medicare and Medicaid at a federal level) - not due to politics...

It's nice to see examples of Lean Healthcare success in the news, this time on the front page of the Denver Post -- "Denver...

I guess I have a burr in my saddle this week, being Independence Day and all, since I'm commenting on something from the UK...

An editorial written by an American Airlines pilot in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram caught my attention ("Unintended consequences of the Passenger Bill of Rights")....