Tag: Suggestion Box

As a Throwback Thursday, I'm sharing this webinar that I did back in 2012, as hosted by Karen Martin: https://www.leanblog.org/2013/02/healthcare-kaizen-suggestion-box-dead On this theme of "The Suggestion...

Digital transformation is about rethinking and reinventing with digital tools. For over 13 years, KaiNexus has moved beyond the outdated suggestion box model. Traditional suggestion...

I'm looking forward to reading the new book by Uri Levine, the founder of Waze. It's titled: Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the...

Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Customer Experience practices are being more widely adopted in healthcare.  Patient satisfaction surveys...

As a senior advisor to KaiNexus and somebody who has been a member of the team since 2011, it's been amazing to see how...

Thanks to my friend Sylvain for sending me this cartoon. It would have been more timely for me to share this before Christmas, but there's an opportunity for improvement. The cartoon series is called Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich. This particular cartoon appeared on December 13, 2017. Here's the top part... please click through to their website to see the entire cartoon and I'll talk about it here in this post, sharing links to other blog posts and videos on the topic.

Last week, I was in Austin for the annual Lean Coaching Summit, where I took a full-day class on "Motivational Interviewing" (as I had...

Back in 2014, I wrote about a CBC radio piece that featured, among other organizations, St. Mary's General Hospital in Ontario: You can check out...

I've written a lot about suggestion boxes, and usually in the context of how they don't work well. Many aspects of traditional suggestion box systems sound great, but don't work in practice. What doesn't work: Boxes not being opened very often, being reviewed by a committee or executives...

As a guy who started his career in manufacturing before moving to healthcare in 2005, I don't get many opportunities to visit the "Gemba"...

Burris has a new article on the Harvard Business Review website: “Employee Suggestion Schemes Don’t Have to Be Exercises in Futility” In my own work and travels, it’s hard to find anybody who has good things to say about suggestion boxes...

This article caught my attention the other day: "Philly VA employees ask for golf shirts in suggestion box for improving veteran care." I hesitate to...