Tag: Kaizen

Catching up on an episode of the NBC show "Parks & Recreation" from a few weeks back, Rob Lowe's character is talking about going...

While this photo looks like a dangerous situation, I guess we can call it a light-hearted look at a questionable improvement, via the wonderful...

As described on the YouTube page for this video, a group of Salem Hospital (Oregon) staff members (senior leaders, front-line staff, clinicians) visited Japan...

We are going through the editing and typesetting process for our upcoming book Healthcare Kaizen this week. After not really looking at the manuscript for...

Here is the fifth in our series of short, simple Kaizen education videos  from KaiNexus, a software startup where I am on the management team....

Our guest for episode #136 is Paul Akers, President of FastCap and author of the book 2 Second Lean. Here, we are talking about...

Mark's note: Today's guest post by Bart Sellers is a timely contribution to follow up to  yesterday's post about the ThedaCare Business Performance System...

"Kaizen" is a Japanese word that means "change for the better" in the context of ongoing "continuous improvement." The so-called "kaizen event," a weeklong...

I love employee ideas and continuous improvement, but I really dislike suggestion boxes. As I've said, they are well intended, but the whole suggestion...

As I was cleaning out a pile of stuff in my office, I found an unread issue of Inc. magazine from June 2011. One...

My Healthcare Kaizen  co-author Joe Swartz works in Indianapolis in the Franciscan St. Francis Health System. They use the term "kaizeneer" to describe those...

While doing research for my upcoming book on "Healthcare Kaizen," I found two books that touched on kaizen-style continuous improvement in our everyday lives....