Tag: Standardized Work

What Do You Use To Set Staffing Levels? How About Data?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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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...