Tag: Kaizen

Join Me at the Northeast Shingo Prize Conference, Sept 25-26

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I hope you'll join me and a lot of Lean friends at the 2012 Northeast Shingo Prize Conference, to be held in Worcester, MA...

New @KaiNexus “Explainer Video” – With 3 Use Cases

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In the "Lean Startup" parlance, our startup KaiNexus is not going into an existing market - we are working to develop a new market...

Podcast #153 – Psychologist Robert Maurer, PhD, One Small Step Can...

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Joining me for Podcast #153 is Robert Maurer, PhD,  Director of Behavioral Sciences for the Family Practice Residency Program at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center...

Weekend Fun: How “Toast Kaizen” Should Have Ended

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I've probably seen the "Current Condition" portion of the fantastic "Toast Kaizen" DVD  (from GBMP) more than a hundred times over the past seven...

“Quality Digest Live” Video Archive & Follow Up Post on Standardized...

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Thanks to the guys at Quality Digest... I was on their weekly video show "Quality Digest Live" last week, talking about "Healthcare Kaizen." You...

KaiNexus Gives People a Voice

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I was recently at a conference and the microphone struck me... it looks an awful lot like our KaiNexus logo (or I see our...

“Why Charter Schools Work” – Questions of Autonomy, Responsibility, Standardized Work...

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My mom is a retired public school elementary teacher, so I've heard plenty of stories about bad management decisions within a school system and...

Dr. Gary Kaplan, CEO of Virginia Mason, on Healthcare Morale

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It might only be free (brief registration required) for a limited time, but there's a great video of Dr. Kaplan (with his slides) talking...

Jerks Can Be Creativity Killers, Alright

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Saw this in the most recent Fast Company:   Is Your Manager A Creativity Killer? If the manager is something like a case study from...

Are Suggestion Boxes Really Going Away? What Say Amazon?

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Last week, I found and read an article, "Whatever happened to the company suggestion box?," that makes some really great points about the problems...

More Than Grammar in This WSJ Grammar Quiz

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Last week, my dad pointed out this grammar quiz on the Wall Street Journal website (as part of the article "This Embarrasses You and...

Analyzing the Kaizen Improvements in Our Book “Healthcare Kaizen”

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I went through our new book  Healthcare Kaizen to categorize the different improvement examples in the book... We have, by my count, 124 examples from...