Category Archive for 'Healthcare'

2009 will be the year of lean

Friday, January 9th, 2009

John Shook at Lean Enterprise Institute says lean is "just what the doctor ordered" for 2009 and is hoping for a better year.
Brian Buck expects creativity and innovation to arrive on the scene.
Jon Miller talks about how Tom Vilsack might bring lean to the federal level (hooray!).
Kevin Meyer suggests Toyota could use some of its […]

Lean people on Twitter, anyone up for FriendFeed?

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Hopefully making for some more useful conversation, I’m starting to find some more lean people on Twitter.  I’m starting to connect with people around the world that I otherwise would never meet.  Here they are in no particular order:

Mark Graban: http://twitter.com/leanblog.  His focus is on healthcare and you can also read his blog here: http://www.leanblog.org
Ron […]

Health care: Little House on the Prairie style

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Remember when Dr. Baker on Little House on the Prairie went to the homes of the people who were ill?  That would never work today, would it?
Well don’t tell Jay Parkinson that.  When he finished residency, he was determined to revolutionize health care by personalizing it.  Here’s some of what he has to say:
My goal […]