
Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit 2017: Reflections and Insights
Two weeks ago I was in Palm Desert for the annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit co-hosted by Catalysis and the Lean Enterprise Institute. It was the
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Two weeks ago I was in Palm Desert for the annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit co-hosted by Catalysis and the Lean Enterprise Institute. It was the

This week I’m attending the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Palm Springs, co-hosted by two of the organizations for which I’m a faculty member of

I just got back from a 9-day trip to Japan and it was everything I hoped it would be from both a personal and professional perspective.

I’m at the San Francisco International Airport and about to board my flight back to Japan – the second time since we departed as residents

In the first two posts in this series, I shared how the leaders of Nakano City, one of the 23 wards within the Tokyo metropolitan area,

In the first post in this series, I shared how the leaders of Nakano City, one of the 23 wards within the Tokyo metropolitan area, describe how

Less than a month before my family wrapped up our time in Japan last June, Tim Wolput of Lean Japan Study Tours invited me to

My latest article for the Lean Enterprise Institute’s Lean Post, “Developing Better Habits Through A3 Thinking”, was published today – check it out and let

What does love have to do with it? Most of us are familiar with this refrain from Tina Turner’s famous song from the 1980s, but

Last week I had the pleasure of participating in the Lean Transformation Summit in Carlsbad, California. It was the first time that I’d attended the all

As I’ve written about in earlier posts, last spring I led a study trip to the Japanese “5S City” of Ashikaga to learn about how organizations in

Last week Mark Graban published a podcast on his website LeanBlog.org that we recorded recently about how living in Japan has shaped my perspective a Lean thinker and
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