Tag: Healthcare

I wanted to share a recent Kaizen improvement story that I heard from a hospital. Great things can happen when we: Listen to our patients Take action...

As I sometimes do, I'm going to close out a bunch of browser tabs (which makes my Mac run faster) and I'll do that...

I was quoted in two articles that appeared in "Today's Hospitalist": "Discharging Mr. Wood: Time to get serious about waste" and "Standardized work: Improving quality by reducing...

Last Wednesday and Thursday, I collaborated with Joe Swartz and a countless number of his colleagues to host 24 visitors from different health systems (and...

Today and tomorrow are the days for our first on-site Kaizen experience at Franciscan St. Francis. I'll be sharing things on Twitter (@MarkGraban) and...

Joe Swartz and I have been working for a while to put together our first onsite Kaizen workshop at his health system, Franciscan St....

In manufacturing, the term Lean has far too often been synonymous with layoffs. Doing so is more L.A.M.E. than Lean. People get anxious and throw around...

Back in 2007, I had my first opportunity to travel to England, a country I really love visiting. I had the chance to attend...

Forgive me for being a bit of an Industrial Engineering geek here in this post. After all, my bachelor's degree is in Industrial Engineering,...

Reminder: I'm doing a webinar today with Dr. Greg Jacobson, CEO of KaiNexus, titled "How To Spread Continuous Improvement" and I hope you'll join...

Mark's Note: I met today's guest blogger, Gus Lusack, when I was working with a hospital pathology department in the British NHS. Gus was...

My guest for episode #221 is Jacob Stoller, author of a book that was just released: The Lean CEO: Leading the Way to World-Class Excellence. It's...