Tag: Kaizen
Life Without Tap Water in Boston – New Standardized Work
I'm sitting here on a Sunday morning, drinking a cup of coffee I made at home with bottled water. Why bottled water? Because of...
Liveblogging the Quaid Patient Safety Documentary
I'm blogging notes and thoughts as I watch the Discovery Channel documentary by actor Dennis Quaid and others -- "Chasing Zero: Winning the...
Lean is “Taking Canadian Healthcare by Storm,” but Look Out for...
In an article ("Assembly required: Health care from the Toyota factory floor") from Canada's National Post newspaper says Lean healthcare is "taking Canadian healthcare...
What Makes You Want to Do Better?
Recently, I was able to visit VIBCO, a Lean manufacturing company in Rhode Island. Company President Karl Wadensten is the host of "The Lean...
Intrinsic Motivation in Lean Leadership: Unpacking Daniel Pink’s TED Talk on...
I have been a big fan of the author Daniel Pink since I heard about his most recent book Drive: The Surprising Truth About...
No Joke: Lean Methods Applied by a Hockey Coach in Ontario
Unlike Thursday's joke, this is real. It's a video posted by the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME), featuring a full-time Lean professional, a "kaizen...
April Fool: A New Way to Learn Lean? Wii Lean!
Note: I edited the post title on April 3 to make it clear this was an April Fool's Joke. Comments posted by readers on...
A Week of Lean and Patient Involvement at BIDMC
I had the opportunity to finally meet "e-Patient Dave" at the HIMSS conference about 10 days ago, where he spoke on the topic of...
Productivity Targets Getting in the Way of Productivity Improvement
Earlier this morning, I attended a presentation at SHS/ASQ about Lean implementation in multiple emergency rooms in a large health system. There were a...
Creative Kludge from a Cop = Kaizen?
A site related to my favorite failblog.org is "There I Fixed It," a creative collection of bad workarounds or clever fixes, depending on your...
“Win”-dow Washing: Standardized Work or Kaizen?
I try to keep things light here on Saturdays... one of my favorite sites is failblog.org and their related blogs. Although they normally document...
Guest Post: CEOs and Kaizen
Today's post is an email written by Patrick M. Anderson, Executive Director of Chugachmiut, Inc., the Tribal consortium created to promote self-determination to the...
