Tag: Kata

Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Healthcare and hospital staff around the world are working tirelessly to provide...

Our guest today for Episode 347 is Brad Parsons, the CEO of NEA Baptist, in Jonesboro, Arkansas. NEA Baptist is a 228-bed hospital and...

Today I have two guests joining me for Episode #314 of the podcast. They are Skip Steward, the Chief Improvement Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care in Tennessee and Brandon Brown, the owner and "Master Kata Coach" of his firm, Continuous Coaching Commitment, LLC. In this episode, we discuss their use of methods such as "Training Within Industry" and "Toyota Kata" in the important work of healthcare improvement. Skip and Brandon both have backgrounds in manufacturing, but they have been able to translate Lean skills and mindsets into healthcare. We'll also talk about their dynamic as consultant / client and how the roles of "coach" and "learner" are often very situational and how we can be both at different times.

Here is a recorded webinar... I played host (along with KaiNexus) for this webinar that was held Tuesday, August 14 at 1 pm ET.

Here are some recorded keynote talks and video presentations from the "Results Washington" annual conference, as part of the state's Lean government efforts. See this post for talks from LEI's Jim Womack and John Shook, Toyota's Jamie Bonini, and many healthcare improvement leaders.

Are there parallels between medicine and organizations when we look at the tension between heroism and the sometimes boring work of preventing problems and improving things? I comment on an article by Dr. Atul Gawande…

Mark's Note: Today's guest post is by my good friend and fellow DFW-area resident Michael Lombard. Next week, on Tuesday April 19, I'm hosting a...

Hey everyone... I'm doing a few different webinars or webcasts in the next few weeks. But first, while I'm promoting stuff, Amazon has a GREAT...

Today, I'm announcing a new podcast series called the Toyota Kata Podcast, or "KataCast" for short. As the Toyota Kata book and methodology have become more popular, I've been surprised that I haven't been asked "why don't you blog more about Toyota Kata?" [...]

Mark's note: Today's post is written by Michael Lombard -- you can find him on Twitter or read his blog "Hospital Kaizen" here. This post...

Our team has been doing some cool stuff over on our KaiNexus website and I wanted to batch up the sharing of some of...

Mark's Note: Today's post is by Dr. Mark Jaben, following up our recent podcast discussion. See his previous guest posts.  Hidden brain --------------> prefrontal cortex...