Tag: Innovation
Lessons from Brett Favre on Permission and Innovation
It's a big week for American football. Monday was the College Football Playoff championship game. Alabama, led by Nick Saban and his "Process" were...
Why We Should All Consider Eric Ries’s “Employee’s Bill of Rights”
As you might know from episode #290 of my podcast with Eric Ries on Monday, his new book was released on Tuesday: The Startup Way: How...
Imitation as a Path to Innovation — If You Know What...
At the recent Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, there were thought provoking presentations... and we had many discussions about the role of incremental improvement vs. redesign or transformation. And, lots of discussions about imitating vs. innovating... so I explore those themes in this post.
#TBT: Part 2, A Year of KaiNexus Webinars, July through December,...
Following up on last week's post where I shared KaiNexus webinars from the first half of the year....
Again, one of the things I do...
When Systems Improve–and When They Don’t: Recent Lessons from Healthcare, Sports,...
Recent lessons from NICU innovation, primary care access, fan safety in baseball, and ongoing VA wait-time gaming
This post is a collection of recent updates...
Trying Too Hard to Force Innovation (or Kaizen) Can Backfire
The W. Edwards Deming Institute posted a video of Kevin Cahill, a grandson of Dr. Deming, welcoming people to the event and talking about innovation, or the desire that people have for it. But, they don't know what to do...
Podcast #204 – Paul Plsek, Lean & Innovation at Virginia Mason...
Joining me today for Episode #204 is Paul Plsek, and we're talking about his excellent book (a Shingo Research Award recipient this year) titled...
What People Say is Their “Biggest Challenge Related to Innovation and...
Yesterday's post was about some of our work at KaiNexus and today's post is hosted over on the KaiNexus Blog:
Challenges to Innovation and Improvement
In...
Failure Is Indeed an Option if We’re Trying New Things
If we're trying new things, there are bound to be "failures."
If our leaders want guaranteed success, we won't be trying many new things. The...
Eric Ries on the Lean Startup Methodology and Continuous Innovation
Mark Graban interviews Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, about how Lean principles influenced his thinking on entrepreneurship and continuous innovation. Their conversation...
