Tag: PDSA

I wanted to share a recent Kaizen improvement story that I heard from a hospital. Great things can happen when we: Listen to our patients Take action...

I recently wrote a blog post for KaiNexus titled "How Kaizen Software Helps Me Be A Better Coach." I've done a lot of Kaizen...

It's a simple question: what's up with so many men wearing ties in healthcare? Are you / they wearing them because you like to,...

One question I was asked to ask during my Japan trip was to see if "Quality Circles" are still active in Japanese companies. I...

During my recent visit to Franciscan St. Francis Health System, some of the nurses proudly called themselves "Kaizen Queens" (and there was one self-described...

For those of you not familiar with Vine, it's a social network owned by Twitter that allows you post videos that are six seconds...

I am giving a new webinar on Wednesday, hosted by the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value (to promote a public registration workshop on Kaizen...

There have been plenty of headlines and updates since I first blogged about the controversy over Lean healthcare in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g202QmfzpFo Here is a 10-minute talk I gave at the 2014 Lean Transformation Summit. I'm introduced by Jim Womack and we do Q&A at the...

We all know the beaver is "the engineer of the animal kingdom." That's why MIT has a beaver as a mascot... it's an engineer...

"Weird Al" Yanokvic skewers corporate buzzwords in this new song and music video. He also skewers the now-tired (in my opinion) "hand writing on a...

I had a great conversation with my fellow Lean healthcare blogger, Brian Buck, the other day. We talk about once a month or so......