Tag: Healthcare

I'm happy to be participating in the ASQ "Influential Voices" blog series here in 2012. ASQ President Paul Borawski (listen to my podcast with...

Sunday's keynote presenter at the 2012 Society for Health Systems conference was Dr. Stephen Markovich, the CEO of Riverside Methodist Hospital, a 1000+ bed...

Hello from Las Vegas, where Monday is Day 2 of the outstanding Society for Health Systems annual conference. I presented Sunday about Healthcare Kaizen...

Some of you might be familiar with the internet meme, spreading on Facebook especially, about "what people think of my profession" (as described in...

Last Thursday's Journal had a story titled "How to Be a Better Boss? Spend Time on the Front Lines." The article talks about senior...

We are still working on rounds of editing in advance of publication, but here is a marketing flyer for our upcoming book Healthcare Kaizen. The...

One of my favorite newspaper writers is Ed Wallace of my local Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Wallace appears in the Sunday automotive section and usually...

  I'll be attending and speaking at three public events in the next few months, twice in Las Vegas and once in Phoenix. Hope to...

Dr. Jaap van Ede, a Dutch journalist and researcher on business improvement methods (such as Lean, Six Sigma, TOC, QRM, and TPM), has posted...

In the Lean movement, organizations are often wise to have some variation on a "no layoffs due to Lean" policy, as I've written about...

As described on the YouTube page for this video, a group of Salem Hospital (Oregon) staff members (senior leaders, front-line staff, clinicians) visited Japan...

Mark's note: Today's guest post by Bart Sellers is a timely contribution to follow up to  yesterday's post about the ThedaCare Business Performance System...