Tag: Standardized Work
What Do You Use To Set Staffing Levels? How About Data?
Hospitals need I.E. Data to Drive Staffing DecisionsMy hand is feeling a bit carpel-tunnel-ish today (that's not a diagnosis). So I'll take the...
Relying on Memory Leads to Rework
Biden Takes Shot at Roberts for Flubbing Presidential Oath - First 100 Days of Presidency - Politics FOXNews.comOn Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts appeared...
Future Speaking Gigs
I'm fortunate to have a few private speaking gigs in the coming months (a hospital in Iowa, an online presentation for an engineering student...
Is this “Like Lean?” TSA Explains the "Explaining Why" Program
TSA: Why? The Reasons Behind TSA Security
As much as I complain about the TSA, they do some things well. You might remember my blog...
Lost in Space
My Way News - Lost tool bag forces changes to planned spacewalksThis makes wonder if the space program uses any concepts that we'd call...
Emergency Docs Flaunt Standardized Work
Moonlighting county docs raise questions :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: The WatchdogsOK, this isn't strictly a Lean issue, but this caught my eye in the...
A Lean Guy Reads FORTUNE
As I was reading the latest issue of FORTUNE (October 13), I had a few Lean thoughts based on a few articles (which I...
Driving in the UK
I'm proud to report that I survived driving in the U.K. for the first time today, driving about an hour to Cambridge. I'm working...
Checklists at a Hotel Front Desk
There's so much in the news about "checklists" in the medical context... and I'm convinced that it's basically the Lean "standardized work" approach in...
Checklists and How You Manage Them
Thinking back to a letter-to-the-editor that I mentioned last week, this is such a critical point, I wanted to think and write about it...
A Powerful Message on Lean and Healthcare
Why I Work In Healthcare | DailyKaizenHere's a great one to end the day on... Lee Fried has a powerful post over on the...
Surgical Checklists in the News!
WHO Proposes Checklist to Reduce Surgery Errors : NPR
A surgical revolution: checklist that could prevent thousands of deaths
Thanks to long-time readers Chet and Andrew...