Tag: Kaizen

Employee Ideas and Other Improvement Work at UMass Memorial Health

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I hope you'll check out the recording of a webinar / panel discussion that I hosted via KaiNexus: Managing Transformation Projects, Improvements, and Learning in...

The Video From the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan

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When I visited the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan (see my previous blog posts about it), they had a display that includes a video...

How a Small Test of Change Can Prevent Bigger Mistakes –...

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In the history of our KaiNexus continuous improvement webinar series, we've used a few platforms over time. We used WebEx for many years, but...

Gauthier Duval on Kaizen Events, Organizational Development, and “Veryable” Labor

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #461 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Gauthier Duval, the Director...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 26nd, 2022

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Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Insights about improvement, innovation,...

Alan Robinson on Continuous Improvement for All and Practical Innovation in...

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #451 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Dr. Alan G. Robinson....

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: June 10th, 2022

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Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! News, blogs, articles, resources,...

Kaizen: An Exotic Word, Common Sense Principles for Healthcare

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We're coming up on the 10th anniversary of the publication of the book that I co-authored with Joe Swartz called Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line...

Looking for Waste and Bad Process at the Order Grill from...

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I love the show "Portlandia" and I also love the "Toast Kaizen" video. I bet the latter is more well known and is more...

This WSJ Article About Lean Isn’t Terrible (Thanks to GE and...

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The Wall Street Journal has an epic track record when it comes to always getting it wrong when they write about Lean or the...

What Does Kaizen Suggest About How to Incentivize People to Submit...

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I received a question from a healthcare leader who had read about the "idea card" format and method that Joe Swartz and I shared...

The Simple, Cheap Improvement I Made to My iPhone MagSafe Charger

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When I first learned about "wireless" charging for devices like my iPhone, I was a skeptic. "How hard is it to connect a charging cable?,"...