Tag: Kaizen

Kaizen: Daily Improvement, Learning, and Leadership in Practice

Kaizen is often misunderstood as small ideas or isolated improvement events. In practice, Kaizen is a daily, people-centered approach to learning and improving work—supported by leadership, good systems, and psychological safety. This archive brings together blog posts, podcasts, and real-world examples of Kaizen in action, across healthcare and other industries, with a consistent focus on leadership behaviors, respect for people, and learning from problems rather than hiding them.

10 Ways Lean Respects and Supports Healthcare Staff

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Lean provides a philosophy and a management model that should be nothing but good for staff and patients. The idea of “respect for people” might sound nice in principle, but what does it mean in a practical sense...

Stuff I’m Reading March 2015: Womack, Sweatshops, Hospitals, and Surveys

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As often happens, I have too many open browser tabs full of articles that I was going to potentially blog about. Too much WIP...

Why Kaizen is an Important Differentiator for Japanese Whisky

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This article caught my attention the other day, primarily because I like scotch, whisky (and whiskey and bourbon). The Japanese love scotch whisky and...

Kaizen: Giving Seven Days’ Grace on a New Idea [Video]

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Here's another video in the series that Joe Swartz and I shot at Franciscan St. Francis Health back in October. See them all here or via a...

Alan Robinson on Idea-Driven Organizations, Kaizen, and the Pitfalls of Suggestion...

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Our guest today is Alan G. Robinson, PhD, an award-winning author, educator, researcher and consultant. He has co-authored six books, including Modern Approaches to Manufacturing...

Practicing What We Preach: Kaizen for the Kaizen Cards

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I do my best to "practice what I preach" in terms of Lean and Kaizen principles and spirit. No, I don't have tape outlines...

Guest Post: The Kaizen / Kata Nexus

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Mark's note: Today's post is written by Michael Lombard -- you can find him on Twitter or read his blog "Hospital Kaizen" here. This post...

Lean Valentine Candy Hearts for Continuous Improvement Nerds

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Valentine's Day isn't just about flowers and chocolate. It's about flow.It's about respect.It's about asking "Why?" five times. If you've ever said "gemba," "poka-yoke," or "stop...

Why Telling Employees to “Check Their Brains at the Door” Destroys...

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Here's my latest cartoon collaboration with a skilled artist (and medical assistant), Carrie Schurman. You can see the whole series via this link. A Common Workplace Message:...

A Kaizen Example from St. Francis: From “Flavored Snot” to Applesauce...

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Here's the latest video in the series that Joe Swartz and I shot at Franciscan St. Francis Health back in October. See them all...

The “Productivity Paradox” of Healthcare IT and the ROI Paradox of...

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I've been reading a preview copy of the upcoming book (due out in April) by Dr. Bob Wachter, The Digital Doctor. It's fantastic and...

Cool Stuff from KaiNexus – A Quiz, Video, Haikus, Webinar, and...

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Our team has been doing some cool stuff over on our KaiNexus website and I wanted to batch up the sharing of some of...
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