Tag: Kaizen

Out there in the Lean and quality improvement communities, you sometimes hear some silly things. Sometimes, I want to attach the "Lean As...

It has been right about  three years since I was introduced to Dr. Greg Jacobson via a reader of this blog. It was great...

My guest for episode #193 is Mark Jaben, MD, talking about our brains, Lean, and change. Mark has been a guest blogger for me...

When I recently did a Healthcare Kaizen workshop near Detroit, I invited an old friend of mine to attend as a guest. Marisa Smith, an...

Next class: Boston, May 20, 2015 I was thinking yesterday about the "Lean for Knowledge Work" seminars I'm doing with Jim Benson and I was...

Next class: Boston, May 20 2015 I'm happy to be once again partnering with fellow Shingo Award recipient Jim Benson to teach our combined full-day...

Today, Joe Swartz and I are leading a workshop about "Healthcare Kaizen" in Farmington Hills. A "core Kaizen concept," as Joe says, is that leaders who want...

I'm in my home town of Livonia, Michigan this week, having arrived to the snow and cold yesterday, staying through Thursday. Boy, my blood...

I had a chance to go back to the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas (TMMTX) plant in south San Antonio last week with a group...

Today's guest post is by Duke Rohe, a Quality Improvement Education Consultant  at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. I know Duke from his...

Thanks everybody for reading my blog in 2013! I appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to read and participate in the...

It was an amazing first day of the Lean Startup conference yesterday in San Francisco. Videos will be available online soon, but for now...