Guest Post by Joe Swartz: At Franciscan Health, we were struggling to create a system-wide standard for our improvement boards. Although we had deployed them to over 50 departments across our 14 ...
https://www.leanblog.org/2018/11/how-standard-should-standard-improvement-boards-be/
Mark's Note: Today's post is the first guest post by Jess Orr, who you might remember from the webinars that she did for KaiNexus. I hope you enjoy the post... As a continuous improvement pract...
Mark's Note: Today's post is by Kay Kendall, CEO & Principal of BaldrigeCoach. You might remember her from episode #277 of my podcast. She's the co-author of Leading the Malcolm Baldrige Way: ...
https://www.leanblog.org/2018/04/can-humility-lead-to-excellence/
Mark's Note: Today's guest post was written in partnership with the Society for Health Systems, an organization I highly recommend to those who work in healthcare improvement. I recommend and par...
https://www.leanblog.org/2017/07/learn-elders-replaced-learn-youth-healthcare/
Mark's Note: Last month, I was notified about Prof. Jeff Liker's retirement from the University of Michigan after 35 years. I wasn't able to attend the reception for him, unfortunately. But, my f...
https://www.leanblog.org/2017/06/congratulations-jeff-liker-retirement-university-michigan/
In this post, Paul Critchley writes about signs not being a good solution to most problems. Does posting a sign mean that people understand it or that it's going to be followed? The post Signs,...
https://www.leanblog.org/2017/04/signs-signs-everywhere-signs/
Mark's note: Today's post is by Cristal Totterman, a pharmacist and Lean leader I have known for a couple of years now. She's written a post that made me think about and reflect on the never-endi...
https://www.leanblog.org/2017/03/challenge-pdsa-ideal-state-moving-even-improve/
Thanks to Sam Selay for today's guest post. Although he's writing about the government and the military, I think you'll find it interesting regardless of your industry. Read an excerpt from Sam's...
https://www.leanblog.org/2017/03/do-we-want-the-same-results/