“Many hands make for light work.” – John Heywood If Kaizen and continuous improvement are overwhelming to you as a leader, ask yourself if you are delegating enough? Are you distributing the improvement workload across your team? Managers don’t have …
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This is the idea board from the emergency department at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. They first started their Kaizen program under the coaching of Mark Graban in September 2012. They like to keep things fun and fresh, giving …
Here is the first board that’s in place at Holzer Health, in Ohio. This is how the board looked in their first week of use in the Emergency Department.
A growing number of healthcare organizations are using the KaiNexus collaborative improvement platform to “make improvement happen” in their organizations. Electronic boards have the advantages of providing visibility across departments and across sites within your organization. Disclaimer: Mark Graban, co-author …
Shared by Ted Makros from NFI Industries. “This is our “Kaizen Wall of Fame” we have going here and in just 2 months, I already have 70 “simple Kaizen” ideas and we are implementing almost daily.
This example appears in Healthcare Kaizen, from a hospital lab. What’s labeled as “Kaizen Events” really refers to small Kaizen improvements, not the formal weeklong team events that are also used in healthcare.
From Mark Graban’s trip to Sweden in 2010, an Idea Board (using post-it notes).
This Kaizen was an “Opportunity for Improvement” (OI) that was identified and completed by a KaiNexus customer using the KaiNexus collaborative improvement platform software. This Kaizen is worth about $2.7 million of additional revenue per year for just this one …
This idea board includes a “PICK” chart in place of the “To Do” column and adds space for metrics.
