Tag: Kaizen

In November 2012, I had the opportunity to visit Japan for the first time as part of a Lean healthcare study mission. It was...

As I sometimes do, I'm going to close out a bunch of browser tabs and share some articles that caught my eye recently but...

Listen: Joining me for episode #201 are Ron Smith, a Process Improvement Coordinator/Lean Facilitator at Mary Greeley Medical Center (in Iowa) and Suz Kaprich, a consultant...

Today is the first day of the 5th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. Follow along on Twitter with hashtag #HCSummit14 to see my tweets and thoughts from others....

California week on the blog continues after yesterday's post about Lean at San Francisco General Hospital. Today, I'm flying to Los Angeles to attend the...

Happy June, everybody! Summer is here. We've actually had a delightfully long spring here in San Antonio, which means the temperature hasn't really been...

Here are a few articles (and a podcast) that I either wrote and had published recently or was interviewed for. Lean Management Journal - Lean...

I recently saw an article about Avera Medical Group and Sanford Clinic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota: "Health systems learn to be lean." Avera McKennan...

In the category of "not so new" (this blog is nine years old) and hopefully "somewhat improved," you might notice a slightly different design...

Last Thursday, Joe Swartz and I presented about "Kaizen Coaching" at the annual Shingo Institute Conference. In the start of our breakout session, I made...

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...

I didn't know , until yesterday, that Toyota has an official company blog (at least for Toyota UK). Even though I've learned from Toyota people...