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Contributor: Mark Graban
Contributor: 05/16/2012 9:00:00 AM EDT
Changing Leadership Styles with Lean As I’ve heard people say, Lean management isn’t necessarily complicated – it’s just very different. In an organization that is undergoing a “Lean transformation,” leaders need to shift from being controlling to: Coaching Coordinating Collaborating Challenging Caring Are your leaders making this transition? About LeanBlog. read more
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Contributor: Mark Graban
Contributor: 05/15/2012 5:00:00 PM EDT
Scared to Death: Worry about hospital errors, not pink slime I had an article published in a California newspaper and it will hopefully be picked up by others. The headline is “Scared to Death: Worry about hospital errors, not pink slime. read more
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Contributor: Mark Graban
Contributor: 05/15/2012 9:00:00 AM EDT
Podcast #147 – LeanPub.com (Part 2), Peter Armstrong & Scott Patten Please upgrade your browser MP3 File (run time 32:21) Episode #147 is a part two of a conversation with Scott Patten and Peter Armstrong from LeanPub. read more
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Contributor: Mark Graban
Contributor: 05/14/2012 4:00:00 PM EDT
What’s Wrong with “What’s Wrong With the Lean Start-up” A few years back, I coined a really bad acronym: L.A.M.E. One of the things it can mean is “Lean As Mistakenly Explained.” It’s inevitable to see articles about the Lean Startup methodology that fit into this category (or maybe L. read more
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Contributor: Mark Graban
Contributor: 05/14/2012 9:00:00 AM EDT
All Saudi hospitals to report serious errors online I don’t have any first hand experience with the country, but I have had many requests for the free first chapters of my books (Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen) from Saudi Arabia over the past few years. read more
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Contributor: Mark Graban
Contributor: 05/11/2012 9:00:00 AM EDT
Stuff I’m Reading: False Alarms, Fraud, Failures & two Good News Stories 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” stories are the last two, of course… AIM: False STEMI activations lead to costs, inappropriate cath lab use – by comparison, ThedaCare, is fast AND accurate in its Code STEMI diagnosis [. read more
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Contributor: Mark Graban
Contributor: 05/10/2012 9:00:00 AM EDT
Not Exactly News – TSA Wastes Money While the hurdles to systemic Lean healthcare transformation are high (see the payment system challenges discussed in John Toussaint’s new book), I am generally optimistic that we can significantly improve healthcare. read more
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Contributor: Mark Graban
Contributor: 05/10/2012 1:33:00 AM EDT
You (One of You) Might be Searching for Waste Wrong :-) So I was checking out the server logs for the website for my upcoming book Healthcare Kaizen (because, yes, my life is just that boring). Somebody reached the site because they searched Yahoo (??) for “find kaizen opportunities”. read more
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Contributor: Mark Graban
Contributor: 05/10/2012 1:33:00 AM EDT
You (One of You) Might be Searching for Waste Wrong So I was checking out the server logs for the website for my upcoming book Healthcare Kaizen (because, yes, my life is just that boring). Somebody reached the site because they searched Yahoo (??) for “find kaizen opportunities”. read more
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Contributor: Mark Graban
Contributor: 05/09/2012 9:00:00 AM EDT
Blame Outsourcing or Bad Processes & Bad Management? This article from the Vancouver Sun caught my eye: “Outbreaks show the vital role of hospital cleaners.” The article is written by a union official (which is disclosed at the end of the piece). read more
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BPM Futures: Innovating Business through Technology
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Nordic Enterprise and Process Excellence Forum
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BPM Futures USA: Innovating Business through Technology
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Lessons From Peter Drucker:
How to Predict the Next “Big Thing”: Want to predict future trends that will impact your business? It’s not as difficult as it seems if you know a few essentials. read more
William Cohen | Peter F. Drucker | demographic change
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BPM Straight Up - Separating Fact from Fiction:
The BPM Elephant in the Room: When IT and the Business Both Have Blinders On: What Does an Elephant Look Like? It Depends on Perspective! Every group within a business has different priorities and their own perspective on how it all fits together, writes columnist Dan Morris. read more
Dan Morris | BPM Collaboration | business transformation
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Nike Strikes Gold with Lean Manufacturing: The manufacturing operations at sportswear... read more
Adi Gaskell | Nike | retail
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Why Business Process Management is more than IT: BPM and Continuous Improvement Go Hand in... read more
BPM | Frederick Taylor | Taichi Ohno





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