Tag: ThedaCare

Lean provides a philosophy and a management model that should be nothing but good for staff and patients. The idea of “respect for people” might sound nice in principle, but what does it mean in a practical sense...

Normally, I like interviewing other people, through my podcast series (and this recent blog post with a hospital leader telling her story of putting...

It's really easy to make statements like "patient safety is our top priority." That same statement can be applied to hospital staff, as well. Or,...

Today, I'm traveling to Orlando for the annual Society for Health Systems conference. I hope to see some of you there! Joe Swartz and...

For today's "Throwback Thursday," I recently re-watched parts of a DVD I helped produce a few years back for the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare...

Earlier this month, for the College Football Playoff championship game, I wrote about "Lessons from the Football Coaching and Leadership Styles of the Oregon...

Tomorrow afternoon, I'm doing two different webinars that I hope you'll want to sign up for. Even if you can't attend live, I'd encourage you...

tl;dr: The article delves into a modernized approach to strategy deployment by treating it as a series of testable hypotheses or predictions. This perspective...

The ideas, principles, and methods that we'd recognize as "Lean" aren't exclusively of Japanese origin. Many of us, myself included, draw inspiration from Toyota,...

I was thankful to find this CBC Radio news story / podcast from the program "White Coat Black Art," hosted by Dr. Brian Goldman: The...

My Lean mentors often talk about "leading with questions." Kim Barnas and ThedaCare use this approach in different ways, including "stat sheets," which are...

Mark's note: Christina Kach is our guest blogger today, with a post about the recent North East Shingo Conference, where she was an attendee. See...