Tag: Waste

March 11, 2012 -- daylight savings time starts and it's time to revisit this post from August 2011... and to set the date and...

March 4 to 10 has been "Patient Safety Awareness Week" from the National Patient Safety Foundation. I'm certainly in favor of patient safety and have...

Here's a funny little story I saw on ESPN today (Nicklas Grossmann reveals extra 'n'). Apparently when former Dallas Stars' defenseman  Nicklas Grossman entered...

Mark's Note: Today's post is a guest post from a new blogger, Chad Walters. Chad and I share a strong interest in sports --...

This time of year, every publication under the sun (print and web) has a "Holiday Gift Guide" to share. In that spirit, I am...

Here is the third short, simple Kaizen education video from  KaiNexus.  We are embedding these videos into our web-based software, to provide short tips and hints...

In honor of Veterans' Day (in the U.S.) and Remembrance Day (in Canada, where I spent most of the last two weeks, often wearing...

The "Strong America Now" initiative has proposed there are opportunities to save $500 BILLION  a year from our U.S. federal government budget by using...

Unfortunately, healthcare professionals often aren't given the tools they need to do their jobs properly. People are forced into workarounds and corner cutting, or...

I've recently had an email exchange with a retiree who is volunteering in a non-profit hospice care facility. I'm sharing this thoughts with his...

After last week's piece on "putting the continuous back into continuous improvement," I had another article published this past week. This new article was published...

Last week, I posted a podcast with Mike George, founder of Strong America Now, an organization that is promoting Lean and Six Sigma methods...