Tag: Kaizen

Book Review: One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen...

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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....

Will Suggestion Boxes be a Trend in 2012? What Method(s) do...

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I saw this article the other day on BusinessInsider.com: "10 Predictions For How The Workplace Will Change In 2012." Two of the predictions caught my...

Podcast #133 – Mark Graban, Healthcare Kaizen Webinar Q&A Session with...

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Episode #133 is hosted by Ron Pereira, from Gemba Academy, as he leads me through additional Q&A as a follow up to our recent...

A Good Lean Healthcare Journal Article with a Puzzling Title

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Thanks to the readers who sent this article my way and thanks to the authors for mentioning and citing my book, Lean Hospitals. The...

Webinar Recording from a University of Michigan Health System Lean Leader

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Yesterday, the MIT SDM program hosted a webinar by Dr. Jack Billi from University of Michigan. I had the good fortune to meet Dr....

KaiNexus Education Video #4 – Working Toward “Yes” in Kaizen

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Here is the fourth short, simple Kaizen education video from KaiNexus, a software startup where I am the Chief Improvement Officer.

Reminder: My Free Webinar on “Healthcare Kaizen” – December 7

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I am happy to be partnering with my friends at Gemba Academy to present the 2nd in their free Lean webinar series. My webinar...

Berwick Steps Down as Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) Administrator

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This made news on Wednesday - Dr. Donald M. (Don) Berwick stepped down as CMS Administrator: "Harvard professor Don Berwick resigns as Medicare chief."...

An Interesting Take on the Use of Japanese Terms in Lean

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Today, I'm linking to a post from a new blog written by the Ohio State University Fisher College of Business ("Think Op-Ex"). The post...

KaiNexus Education Video #3 – Eliminating Waste & NVA

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Here is the third short, simple Kaizen education video from  KaiNexus.  We are embedding these videos into our web-based software, to provide short tips and hints...

The Lean Dentist, Revisited (and a New Video)

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Updated:  There's now a link to the GBMP video at the bottom of the post. I have long admired the Lean work of Sami Bahri,...

Kaizen for Kids

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Paul Akers, the President of FastCap is a great advocate for staff-driven kaizen (or improvement) ideas in the workplace. Paul and his company bring...
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