Lean Blog Interviews - Healthcare, Manufacturing, Business, and Leadership
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Episode page: https://leanblog.org/451
My guest for Episode #451 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Dr. Alan G. Robinson. He specializes in managing ideas, building high-performance organizations, creativity, innovation, quality, and lean production. He is the co-author of 13 books, many of which have been translated into more than twenty-five languages.
Dr. Robinson is on the faculty of the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and a B.A. and M.A. in mathematics from the University of Cambridge.
He has served on the Board of Examiners of the United States' Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and on the Board of Examiners for the Shingo Prizes for Excellence in Manufacturing.
He's a returning guest (Episode 217) – talked about one of his previous books (co-authored with Dean Schroeder) — The Idea-Driven Organization.
His bestselling book, Ideas Are Free, co-authored with Schroeder, was based on a global study of more than 150 organizations in 17 countries. It describes how the best companies go about getting large numbers of ideas from their front-line employees, and the competitive advantages they gain from this.
His new book, available now, also co-authored with Schroeder is Practical Innovation in Government: How Front-Line Leaders Are Transforming Public-Sector Organizations.
Today, we discuss topics and questions including:
Mark Ryan, Transformation, Kaizen, and Management at Franciscan St. Francis Health
Edward Niedermeyer on "Ludicrous" Stories About Tesla & Toyota
David B. Reid, P.E., Lean & Kaizen at Chick-fil-A *
Amanda Mewborn, Combining Engineering and Nursing
Adam Ward (@adz_mikl) on Lean Design in Healthcare
Dr. Rob Hackett (@patientsafe3) on #TheatreCapChallenge & Change in Healthcare
Preview: "Lean Whiskey" Podcast
@JoyFurnival, Lean in NHS England
Charlie Protzman, “Lean BASICS”
Grey Dube, Another Lean Healthcare CEO from South Africa
Vance Jackson, a Lean Healthcare CEO from West Virginia
Gladys Bogoshi, a Lean Healthcare CEO from South Africa
Barry O’Reilly on the Need to “Unlearn”
Barry McCarthy, Toyota as a Development Company
The Toyota Kata Memory Jogger
Jason Burt, on Being Coached by Toyota
Dr. Eric Dickson, a CEO's Perspective on Lean and Ever
Christoph Roser, His Grand Tour of Japanese Automakers
Mike Eisenberg, The Film “To Err is Human” and the Patient Safety Emergency
Bette Gardner and Jeff Heil, Friday Night at the ER