Tag: Kaizen
Edward Blackman on Combining Behavioral Science with Continuous Improvement
Joining me for Episode #370 is Edward Blackman, the founder and managing partner of Kelda Consulting. He has previously had Lean and process improvement-focused...
Song Parody: If I Had a Million Kaizens
I was cleaning out my hard drive (I hesitate to call that "5S-ing")... moving some files to an external disk and deleting others.
I stumbled...
Improvements in Walking and Hospital Covid-19 Incident Response Teams
In this post, I'd like to share two posts from the KaiNexus Blog.
Walking More Safely
I wrote this post for KaiNexus based on my...
Continuing to Continuously Improve My Online Scheduling Process
For years, I've scheduled many phone calls and web meetings. That's only increased during this current Covid-19 era. Sooooo many Zoom meetings. I do...
Kaizens at the Grocery Store (and the Drug Store) [COVID-19]
I wrote a blog post for KaiNexus that's the first in a series that we're going to run about "Opportunities for Improvement" in everyday...
Is Your Hospital Punishing or Encouraging People’s Necessary Creativity During the...
This blog post is a collaboration with a Lean healthcare consulting friend of mine, who heard another unfortunate story from his sister, an emergency...
Must Dos and Nice to Haves: Performance Reviews and Continuous Improvement?
There's a very well known cartoon that you might have seen where a caveman offers round wheels to other cavemen who are pulling a...
Interview with Amy C. Edmondson On Psychological Safety And “The Fearless...
My guest for episode #356 of the podcast is Amy C. Edmondson, PhD, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 17, 2020
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Sometimes you just need to get a team together and improve. Here's a good example of use of A3 thinking to...
From Japan: “We were not always a Kaizen company” — Surprising?
Here is something brief that I posted on LinkedIn while I was in Japan recently, but I also wanted to share it here, elaborating...
My Webinar on Continuous Improvement and Intrinsic Motivation
Hi, you're invited to view the recording of a webinar that I presented next week -- Wednesday, December 11 at 1 pm ET, as...
A Continuing Culture of Continuous Improvement at UMass Memorial Health
I was really happy to see this recent blog post from my friend Dr. Eric Dickson, the CEO of UMass Memorial Health System:
More than...