Tag: Kaizen

Management Improvement Carnival #197: Lean & Deming

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Again, I'm very happy to host the Carnival for  John Hunter  and his  Curious Cat management improvement blog. My job here is to share...

Some Recent Podcast Interviews

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While I love interviewing others for my Podcast series, sometimes the tables and the microphones get turned and I get interviewed. Here are a few...

Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson on Continuous Improvement

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There's a great piece, currently available for free on the HBR website, about continuous improvement: The Culture to Cultivate The author, George Halvorson, is the recently...

Kaizen & Lean Healthcare Classes with TechSolve in Ohio, August 6-8

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I'm happy to announce that I'm partnering with TechSolve, a non-profit organization in Ohio, to jointly deliver three day-long workshops on Kaizen and Lean...

Most Workers “Hate Their Job” (Are Disengaged); Lean & Kaizen Can...

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It's always sad then these national employee engagement surveys come out... the latest one from Gallup doesn't paint a pretty picture: "Most workers hate...

Video about “Healthcare Kaizen” at Franciscan St. Francis Health System

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Below is a very nice video that was produced by Franciscan St. Francis Health System, the organization where my  Healthcare Kaizen co-author Joe Swartz...

Snowden-Proofing the NSA

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Regardless of whether you think the NSA leaks that Edward Snowden admitted to make him a hero or a traitor, it begs the question: How...

Toyota’s Jamie Bonini on Organizational Culture

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Last week at the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, I really enjoyed the presentation by Jamie Bonini,  General Manager of the  Toyota Production System Support...

Can’t Always Believe Somebody Saying “Toyota Would Tell You To…”

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In my experience, you have to be cautious when somebody says either, "Lean says you should...." or "Toyota would tell you to..." because those...

Workshop in Seattle, July 29: An Introduction to Lean for Knowledge...

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I'm happy to announce that I'm collaborating with Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry, fellow Shingo Research Prize recipients, and experts in the "personal...

Lean Thinking (Finally?) Gets to Chrysler Windsor Plant?

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This article appeared back in March... March of 2013... as in this year: "Windsor Chrysler workers reduce waste to be world class." I mean,...

“Healthcare Kaizen” Public Workshop – June 25, Dallas / Fort Worth

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I first held a public registration workshop based on the book "Healthcare Kaizen"  in Denver last month. I'm going to repeat the workshop in...
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