Tag: Quality

In this month's installment of the "ASQ Influential Voices" blog series, ASQ President Paul Borawski asked, "Are Quality Professionals Happy On the Job?," citing...

In a recurring feature, here are links to some more articles I've read recently that might be of interest: Luxury car program brings cancer patients...

Episode #144 is a discussion with Dean Gruner, MD, the president & CEO of ThedaCare, talking about Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and how ThedaCare is using this approach, along with Lean methods, to improve the coordination of care for patients.

Back by popular demand, here are links to some more articles I've read recently that might be of interest on a number of Lean...

Here's a great video of Paul O'Neill, former CEO of Alcoa and former U.S. Treasury Secretary, talking to healthcare leaders about their leadership role...

Here are links to some articles I've read recently that might be of interest: Can Hospital CEOs Be Team Players? (H&HN News) Preventing Hospital Blunders (Science...

My friend Mike Thelen, who works in the dairy industry, has a guest post I'm going to publish next week talking about the seemingly...

In this month's "ASQ Influential Voices" series, ASQ President Paul Borawski asked, "How Do You "Sell" Quality?," particularly to senior execs and CEOs. Paul...

Since the webinar I'm doing later today for Gemba Academy (Using SPC to Make Better Management Decisions) allows me to cite the late great...

Here is an hour-long lecture given by John Toussaint, MD - shared by the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value. There isn't a lot of...

It was a very pleasant surprise that ASQ chose Ari Weizweig, a founder and CEO of Zingerman's Deli (and other businesses) in Ann Arbor,...

I was driving the other day, listening to the 1980s music channel on XM Radio. The DJ announced a song by Duran Duran and...