Tag: Waste

If we're doing trivial Lean projects without addressing patient harm or patient waiting times, we run the risk of "5S-ing the deck chairs on the Titanic"...

As a reminder, I am giving a free Gemba Academy webinar tomorrow (Tuesday 3/12) on "Stories about the Eight Types of Waste in Healthcare."...

I was preparing for the Gemba Academy webinar that I'm doing next Tuesday (you can still sign up) on:  Stories about the Eight Types of...

I'm going to be giving two free webinars in March that you might be interested in signing up for: Gemba Academy - 8 Wastes in...

I guess that, considering last year's blog post, this Lean thinker couldn't really root for Notre Dame and Coach Brian Kelly Monday night in...

Here's a great clip from Thursday's episode of The Office. One of the new employees shows how he enters customer complaints into the computer...

Yesterday's PBS News Hour had a piece on the use of Lean and the Toyota Production System at Seattle's Virginia Mason Medical Center: It's a...

My whole career, I have worked with the Lean methodology (aka the Toyota Production System). I've just really never done much with Six Sigma....

Thanks go to Hakan Forss, from Sweden, who sent me a link to an article he wrote about Lean, waste, and patient flow. He...

Here are links to some more articles I've read recently that might be of interest related to Lean, systems, and improvement. The "good news"...

Mark's Note: Today's post is a guest post that's written for manufacturing settings. But, I'd challenge healthcare readers to think about how the impact...

Last week, an article in the Wall Street Journal caught my eye: "The Robots Are Coming to Hospitals:  A New Breed of Blue-Collar Robots...