http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/152 A blog about improvement in health care Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:38:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/152#comment-90 Mark Graban Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:30:01 +0000 http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/152#comment-90 Funny, timing. Tomorrow, I am taking a hospital lab team that has been working on lean for two months up to Minneapolis to visit two hospitals that have been working on lean much longer. The team did a similar a process, brainstorming questions, many of them related to leadership and culture (and these are primarily front-line employees). It's great to see the team move from "what is lean?" to understanding so much in such a short time. We're far enough in our lab redesign that the team is not going to COPY the other hospitals -- they just want to see a "more lean" operation in action so they can learn from it and apply it to their own lab. Funny, timing. Tomorrow, I am taking a hospital lab team that has been working on lean for two months up to Minneapolis to visit two hospitals that have been working on lean much longer. The team did a similar a process, brainstorming questions, many of them related to leadership and culture (and these are primarily front-line employees). It’s great to see the team move from “what is lean?” to understanding so much in such a short time. We’re far enough in our lab redesign that the team is not going to COPY the other hospitals — they just want to see a “more lean” operation in action so they can learn from it and apply it to their own lab.

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