Tag: Kaizen

Mark's note: Today's vacation guest post is from D. Mark Jackson, a lawyer who has been studying and embracing Lean principles in a California...

This linked article ("Lean cuts Healthcare Costs at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle") summarizes improvements and Lean methods at Seattle's Virginia Mason Medical Center...

Something Lean is in the water in Wisconsin, as that state is one of the hotbeds of Lean healthcare. There's, of course, the ThedaCare...

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...

I'm blogging notes and thoughts as I watch the Discovery Channel documentary by actor Dennis Quaid and others --   "Chasing Zero: Winning the...

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...

Recently, I was able to visit VIBCO, a Lean manufacturing company in Rhode Island. Company President Karl Wadensten is the host of "The Lean...

I have been a big fan of the author Daniel Pink since I heard about his most recent book Drive: The Surprising Truth About...

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...

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...

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...

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...