Tag: LEI

Updated: Save the Date – Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit 2013

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The dates have been announced for the 4th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. It will be held  June 5-6, 2013. Co-hosted by the Lean...

Kaizen vs. Suggestion Box: Effective Employee Engagement Strategies with Mark Graban...

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The Lean Enterprise Institute recorded this short video while we were at the recent Northeast Shingo Prize conference. Thanks to them for doing this...

Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit 2012, Day 2

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Following up on my notes from Day 1, here are some notes and key points from Day 2 of the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit....

Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit 2012, Day 1

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Here are some notes and key points from Day 1 of the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. There are over 500 people here from North...

Healthcare Kaizen Update – Events, Galleys & Early Copies

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I'm really looking forward to next week's Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Minneapolis. Who else is going? I'll be blogging about it Wednesday through...

Registration Open for 2012 Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit

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For the third year, my good friends at the Lean Enterprise Institute, the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, and the Healthcare Value Network are...

“On the Mend” Wins Shingo Award

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Congratulations to Dr. John Toussaint and Roger Gerard, co-authors of the outstanding book,  On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the...

Podcast #137 – Jerry Bussell Discusses the Jacksonville Lean Consortium

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Listen: Episode #137 is a chat with Jerry Bussell, founder of the Jacksonville Lean Consortium. I've met and talked with Jerry many times through LEI,...

Collected Quality & Cost Results from Healthcare Value Network Members

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I was at the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value office a few months ago when Dr. John Toussaint reported that he had gotten a...

Beware the Wrong Gemba Walk: Avoiding Top-Down Mistakes in Lean Leadership

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This is always a tongue-in-cheek warning, but there are times when I warn hospital leaders that they have to be careful when going to...

Beware Your Leadership Shadow

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Last week, at the 2nd annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, I moderated the CEO Panel discussion that featured four excellent Lean leaders: Jim FitzPatrick...

Mark Graban: Announcement on My Future Professional Direction (2011)

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Today, I'm announcing an evolution of my work life: doing less with the Lean Enterprise Institute, doing more consulting and speaking, and starting to...