What did you learn about Lean in Japan? Many of you have asked me to name my top take-aways about lean, leadership and culture now that I’ve moved back to the U.S. after living in […]
In the first post in a series of reflections from my visit to Toyota Memorial Hospital (TMH) in Toyota City, Japan, I declared that Toyota Memorial is the “most ‘Lean’ hospital in Japan”. However, as I wrote, […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of tenets of Lean and the Toyota Production System “visual management”: making things (work, processes, status, etc.) clearly visible (or audible) to the status of the system. For example is a guiding principle in “5S” […]
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 […]
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 […]
Copyright: Katie Anderson 2016