From the category archives:

quality

JM: Improving Work Systematically

by Hal on June 21, 2007

in construction, kaizen, lean, quality, training

Job Methods (JM) improvement is the TWI approach for systematically stripping waste from a set of steps or a process. The beauty of it is it can easily be taught. That differs from Six Sigma’s DMAIC or from the usual lean kaizen workshops.

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Safety and Quality In Health Care and Construction

by Hal on February 7, 2007

in Safety, lean, quality, six sigma

Healthcare is learning from the Lean Six Sigma movement. Maybe it’s time construction learned from healthcare.

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Even Doctors Cry when they Speak of Lean Six Sigma

by Hal on February 6, 2007

in Safety, kaizen, lean, quality

Lean six sigma might save your life. Read what IHI is doing to eliminate accidental deaths in hospitals.

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Katie Couric Spotlights Healthcare Lean Initiatives

by Hal on February 5, 2007

in Safety, kaizen, lean, quality

Continuous improvement hits the medical community. Katie Couric features IHI’s 100k Lives campaign.

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What Battle?

by Hal on November 22, 2006

in kaizen, lean, quality

Six Sigma and TQM offer the manufacturing world a path to on-going improvement. What about the project world?

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Incentives for Craft Work or for Throughput?

by Hal on July 27, 2006

in IGLC, quality

IGLC-14: People, Culture, and Change

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