Tag: Kaizen

Kaizen: Daily Improvement, Learning, and Leadership in Practice

Kaizen is often misunderstood as small ideas or isolated improvement events. In practice, Kaizen is a daily, people-centered approach to learning and improving work—supported by leadership, good systems, and psychological safety. This archive brings together blog posts, podcasts, and real-world examples of Kaizen in action, across healthcare and other industries, with a consistent focus on leadership behaviors, respect for people, and learning from problems rather than hiding them.

“Lean Doctors” – A New Book and Webinar

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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...

Life Without Tap Water in Boston – New Standardized Work

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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

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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...

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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?

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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: Lessons from Daniel Pink, Deming, and...

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What really motivates people to improve their work--especially in healthcare and other complex environments? Drawing on Daniel Pink's Drive, Dr. W. Edwards Deming's teachings,...

No Joke: Lean Methods Applied by a Hockey Coach in Ontario

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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!

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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

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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

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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?

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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?

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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...
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