Tag: Healthcare

Mark's note: Today's guest post is Tim Piotrowski from AME - the Association for Manufacturing Excellence. Their annual conference is being held in Dallas...

I was happy to see this announcement the other day: UCSF to Train Residents in Lean Management and Process Improvement From the announcement: "UC San Francisco will...

Continuing my series of blog posts about my July trip to China, today's post is about my first significant walk through a hospital during...

OK, it's Tuesday... "Throwback Tuesday." I'll make that a thing. Somebody I really appreciated getting to know, before her retirement from healthcare improvement work, was...

My guest for Episode #262 is Steven J. Spear (@stevenjspear on Twitter). He is author of the fantastic book The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders...

Thanks to StoreSMART for being a long-term advertiser and partner here on the blog. Check out their useful products for Lean metrics boards, visual...

Normally, in my original Lean podcast series, I'm interviewing others and I let them do most of the talking (I believe this is statistically...

I'm excited to announce that I'm presenting a webinar at no cost to you on September 22nd, sponsored by Cardinal Health and hosted by...

Today is the Labor Day holiday in the United States (and in Canada, as I recently learned). It's not just a day of rest...

You might remember the hubbub (a kerfuffle?) over the NEJM opinion piece written by Dr. Jerome Groopman and Dr. Pamela Hartzband. See my first post...

A number of you emailed me about this report in the Detroit News. I grew up in Detroit and my first job was as...

The cancelation of a meaningless NFL exhibition pre-season game is probably one of the least important problems in the world. But, it happened recently...