A Fresh Start: Lean Thinking for the New Year
- Goals
- January 1, 2026
According to Tom, “the single most significant strategic strength that an organization can have is not a good strategic plan, but a commitment to strategic listening on the part of every member of the organization: strategic listening to frontline employees, strategic listening to vendors, to customers.” Tom has created a great interlude about why strategic listening
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While I am not a Lean Healthcare professional per say I am a Lean professional that has worked in various aspects of healthcare. My experience varies from the patient floor, to the ER and OR, to long term care, to psychiatric ward and a few things in between. Most of my family are healthcare professionals
READ MOREOn Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
READ MOREFor my Facebook fans you have probably already seen this. But for those of you that are not connected to A Lean Journey on Facebook or Twitter I started a new feature which I call Lean Tips. It is meant to be advice, things I learned from experience, and some knowledge tidbits about Lean to
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In the last few months I have had the pleasure to get to know Shingo Prize Winning author Mark Hamel. As it turns out Mark and I share a number of things in common like living near each other, working for the same past employer, members of the same fraternity (and that of Jamie Flinchbaugh),
READ MOREWith today’s technology we are swimming in data. But this data can be useless if we are not able to react to it. Information needs to be displayed in an easy to interpret manner. In a previous post I talked about the visualization techniques of Matthias Shapiro in terms of current events. Now he walks us through the visualization
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