Tag: Waste

This week, May 6-13, is National Nurses Week. It's always important, but it's especially good to thank and recognize all of the talented, caring,...

I was fortunate to have three interviews published in the past week, where I was talking about Lean Healthcare and Kaizen, so I thought...

My guest for episode #170 is Stephen Parry, joining us from England. He is a keynote speaker at the upcoming Lean Kanban North America...

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...

TL;DR: Many "Lean Six Sigma" programs misrepresent Lean as a set of tools layered onto Six Sigma. Lean is not a toolbox--it's a management...

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