Tag: Kaizen

Our theme this month on the KaiNexus blog is executive leadership. We are concluding that series with a new webinar that will be hosted...

Here's an article that summarizes the pocket of Lean healthcare activity in and around Winona and LaCrosse, Minnesota: "Waste reduction: Area health systems embrace lean...

I wrote about Kaizen the other day on LinkedIn and the first comment was from Dr. Leke Agbejule, BPharm, MSc, PharmD, from South Florida: Very well said. As...

I am giving a new webinar on Wednesday, hosted by the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value (to promote a public registration workshop on Kaizen...

If you know me, you know I'm a huge fan of The Simpsons. The show has been on TV for 25 of my 40...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g202QmfzpFo Here is a 10-minute talk I gave at the 2014 Lean Transformation Summit. I'm introduced by Jim Womack and we do Q&A at the...

In our Healthcare Kaizen books, Joe Swartz and I have tried to make the case that the Kaizen style of continuous improvement isn't just a...

Hospital CEOs are busy people, to say the least, but a big part of their leadership role includes communication with employees, physicians, and the...

Many healthcare organizations are non-profits. They provide some "community benefit" in terms of charity care (as do for-profit healthcare organizations). Then, there are healthcare organizations...

My blog will turn 10 years old in February 2015. You're probably either thinking, "Wow, that's awesome!" or "Get a life, dude." :-) Here's a...

New KaiNexus Webinar - 8/21 Dr. Greg Jacobson and I are doing another new webinar in a few weeks: "Getting Started with Continuous Improvement: Lessons and...

If you clicked on my intentionally attention grabbing headline (or what might be a parody of those)... no, Toyota isn't killing their famed and...