I’m writing this post while on the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Nagoya. No matter how many times I travel on the bullet train – it must be over 20 times in the past 16 months […]
Lean and Kaizen in Healthcare My most recent post about Lean in Japan and in Japanese hospitals has been a popular one and has generated many comments on social media and on the post itself. As I wrote in that […]
As a Lean healthcare practitioner and coach, it has been one of my goals while living in Japan to learn more about how Japanese hospitals think about improvement, kaizen, and management. In one of my very […]
Data and measurement are key components to improvement. As I wrote about in my previous two blog posts, a Tokyo hospital that I visited twice last month (both for a short site visit and discussion with the President, […]
When I met with the President of a Tokyo metropolitan hospital a few weeks ago, he invited me to attend upcoming monthly Quality Committee held monthly. The next meeting was less than two weeks later, […]
Two weeks ago, I visited a hospital in Tokyo that is one of the leaders in Japan in healthcare quality improvement and reporting. As I’ve written about in the past, both on my blog and in […]
As part of my week of healthcare related conferences in Japan several weeks ago, I traveled to Fukuoka to attend the 3rd Conference for Healthcare (CHC). The conference is jointly hosted by Aso Iizuka Hospital, which I visited in […]
It has been surprising to me since moving to Japan six months ago to learn that very few hospitals and health systems are using Lean or the Toyota Production System principles in their operations. Japan […]
Six months ago exactly, my family arrived in Japan on an 18-24 month assignment. On our first morning in Tokyo, I wrote my first blog post to document my intentions for what I wanted to accomplish […]
Australian Lean Conferences Last month I was in Australia for their annual Lean summits – the Lean Thinking and Practice Summit (all industries) and the Healthcare Symposium. In addition to getting to meet with and […]
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