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.

Henry Ford & Hospitals, Nearly 100 Years Ago

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My life and work takes me to interesting places. In late 2012, I was able to visit Japan for the first time, visiting the...

A Lean Guy Reads Inc.: Lean Handbags and Micro Failures

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I enjoy reading the magazine Inc. for my interests in startups and entrepreneurship. There are often examples and case studies that directly reference Lean...

Notes & My Short Talk from the #Lean Transformation Summit, #Lean14

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It's been fun attending the annual Lean Transformation Summit (produced by LEI). Today is Day 2. I took some notes from Day 1 and...

What I’ve Been Reading Lately: Not Doing Kaizen, Engaged Sailors, Etc.

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Every once in a while, I have too many browser windows open and it slows my computer down. That's when I dump a bunch...

The Truth About Data and PDSA/PDCA from a Toyota Publication

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

How Do You Share & Spread Ideas? Plus a @KaiNexus Update

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

Dr. Mark Jaben on Lean, Change, and How Our Brains Respond...

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

Parallels (and Differences) Between the Book “Traction” and Kaizen

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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...

Parody Video – Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together

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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...

Mark Graban & Jim Benson “#Lean for Knowledge Work” Workshops –...

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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...

Before Asking Others to Do Kaizen, First Do Kaizen Yourself

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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...

Kaizen Adventures in My Hometown of Livonia, Michigan

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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...
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