Tag: Kaizen
Videos: Lean in Daily Work at the University of Michigan Health...
If your organization blocks access to YouTube... shame on them. The videos I'm sharing here are two reasons you should insist they open access...
Slides & Recording of My “Healthcare Kaizen” Webinar – “The Suggestion...
Thanks to Karen Martin for hosting yesterday's webinar that I gave based on my book (with Joe Swartz) Healthcare Kaizen. The title was somewhat...
Free Webinar August 21 – From Suggestion Boxes to Kaizen
Free Webinar on Tuesday, August 21, 2 pm ET
I will be giving a free webinar titled:
Healthcare Kaizen: The Suggestion Box is Dead
If you can't...
Dr. Berwick’s 1989 Advice on Making Kaizen Happen in Healthcare
Last week, I blogged about the 1989 New England Journal of Medicine article by Dr. Donald M. Berwick, "Continuous Improvement as an Ideal in...
For the Want of a Screwdriver…
This isn't a story about my frustration with a State of Texas office... it's mainly a story about a failed "kaizen"-style improvement attempt that...
Join Me at the Northeast Shingo Prize Conference, Sept 25-26
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
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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...