Lean Blog Audio: Practical Lean Thinking, Psychological Safety, and Continuous Improvement

Lean Blog Audio: Practical Lean Thinking, Psychological Safety, and Continuous Improvement

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  • What the Book "Lean Thinking" Said About Healthcare...
    What the Book "Lean Thinking" Said About Healthcare in 1996
    http://www.leanblog.org/audio244
    When the book Lean Thinking (by Jim Womack and Dan Jones) was originally published in 1996, it seems likely that hardly anyone was applying Lean principles in healthcare. Sure, you had organizations applying TQM or CQI principles (or even some of the lessons of Dr. W. Edwards Deming). Joan Wellman did some of her first Lean healthcare experiments in 1995, but there weren't any "Lean healthcare" case studies yet. What does their book say?
    5 min
  • What the Book "Lean Thinking" Said About Healthcare...
    What the Book "Lean Thinking" Said About Healthcare in 1996
    http://www.leanblog.org/audio244
    When the book Lean Thinking (by Jim Womack and Dan Jones) was originally published in 1996, it seems likely that hardly anyone was applying Lean principles in healthcare. Sure, you had organizations applying TQM or CQI principles (or even some of the lessons of Dr. W. Edwards Deming). Joan Wellman did some of her first Lean healthcare experiments in 1995, but there weren't any "Lean healthcare" case studies yet. What does their book say?
    5 min
  • The Response to the Hawaii False Alarm...
    The Response to the Hawaii False Alarm Can't End With Firing Someone -- This and other nuclear threats due to bad systems
    http://www.leanblog.org/audio243 Saturday, you might have seen the news about a "false alarm" push alert that was sent to many iPhones and other smart phones in Hawaii. An alert was also sent out over many TV channels through the Emergency Response System.
    Is the response one that focuses on blame and punishment? Or is it focused on understanding how systems fail and how to improve them to prevent future recurrence?
    How does this all apply to your organization?
    17 min
  • The Response to the Hawaii False Alarm...
    The Response to the Hawaii False Alarm Can't End With Firing Someone -- This and other nuclear threats due to bad systems
    http://www.leanblog.org/audio243 Saturday, you might have seen the news about a "false alarm" push alert that was sent to many iPhones and other smart phones in Hawaii. An alert was also sent out over many TV channels through the Emergency Response System.
    Is the response one that focuses on blame and punishment? Or is it focused on understanding how systems fail and how to improve them to prevent future recurrence?
    How does this all apply to your organization?
    17 min
  • Did Toyota's Mindset Really Leave the (Now) Tesla...
    Did Toyota's Mindset Really Leave the (Now) Tesla Building?
    Tesla builds cars in what used to be the NUMMI factory, a joint venture between Toyota and GM (which meant it was run as a Toyota plant with "Lean" practices). Before that, it was a dysfunctional GM plant. Now that it's a Tesla plant, did they learn from Toyota or does it seem more like "the old GM?"
    26 min
  • A Powerful Message from Toyota's President
    A Powerful Message from Toyota's President, Akio Toyoda: No Best, Only Better
    In today's post, I share and write about this message from Akio Toyoda that was posted online:
    “Making Ever-better Cars and Human Resource Development: The Forces That Power Sustainable Growth“
    9 min
  • Should #Lean Conferences Add a "Code of Conduct" for S
    Should #Lean Conferences Add a "Code of Conduct" for Speakers and Attendees?
    In today's post, I pose a question: Should the major Lean conferences adopt or adapt a practice that's now common at tech events, including Agile and Lean Startup events: a "Code of Conduct" for participants and attendees. Is this a countermeasure to a problem that doesn't exist in the Lean community? Or, is it still good to proactively encourage people to speak up to conference organizers if they are subject to bad behavior during the event? In this post, I get feedback and thoughts from the Lean Enterprise Institute, AME, Catalysis, Lean Frontiers, and the Shingo Institute.
    15 min
  • #ChangeChampions at Franciscan St. Francis Health
    #ChangeChampions at Franciscan St. Francis Health - in Supply Chain and Beyond
    Today, I'd like to share the second in my series of articles about "Champions of Change." Here, we feature my friends at Franciscan St. Francis, the health system of my Healthcare Kaizen co-author Joe Swartz.
    As I wrote about in the first article in this series, successful and innovative organizations have "champions of change" at all levels of the organization, and we see that at Franciscan.
    You can read the article over at Becker's Hospital Review:
    Champions of Change Make the Difference at Franciscan Health
    Or you can download a PDF from Cardinal Health.
    8 min
  • Highlights from a Great Book: "The Leader's Handbook"
    I've been going through the book by the late Peter Scholtes: The Leader's Handbook: Making Things Happen, Getting Things Done. His work builds upon the legendary W. Edwards Deming and Russell Ackoff, among others.
    I often quote Scholtes (something also attributed to Peter Senge and others) as saying:
    "People don't resist change, they resist being changed."
    I think that's very insightful and that thought has led me to study change management, "motivational interviewing" and other related topics. It turns out that having the right answer and pushing it on others isn't the best strategy for effecting sustainable change. I had to learn those lessons the hard way and I'm still learning.
    14 min
  • Looking for “Champions of Change” in Healthcare Supply

    Who are the "champions of change" in your organization? Is your CEO a champion of change? How many of your front-line managers and staff are champions of change? Are you? What does it mean to be a champion of change? Today, I'm sharing an article that I've written on this subject... and I'd love to hear your stories about champions of change. Please share your stories on Twitter or LinkedIn with the hashtag #ChangeChampions. Or, you can post a comment below. Click the following link to download a PDF version of the article: "The Essential Ingredient to Improving the Hospital Supply Chain" You can also read the article on Becker's Hospital Review.

    3 min

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Lean Blog Audio is a short-form podcast featuring audio versions of articles from LeanBlog.org, written, read, and expanded by Mark Graban.

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