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My Morning Run - Reflections on Health Care |
| From Guest Blogger Peg Pennington |
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 Mile 1:
Kelly and I are going to save the world. Today’s topic…. health care. Kelly, never one to shy away from the big topic asks, “How is Obama going to fix health care?” I can hear Drew Dillon on my shoulder talking about root cause and I make some cursory remarks about better diets and exercise would be a good start. And there are some things I’ve learned about the lean system that might help.
Mile 2:
For the 10th time I describe to Kelly the elements of the Toyota Production System and Steven Spears, DNA of Lean. Didn’t you read that book by Atul Gwande yet? I think she’s tuning me out and trying to run ahead of me now.
Mile 3:
Basic huffing and puffing, no good conversation here.
Mile 4:
By mile four I’m a good 10 steps behind and struggling to keep up. It’s time to try one of my typical ploys to reel her back in. How’s work going? I asked. “What?” she says. “HOW’S WORK GOING?” Then Kelly does what I know she’s going to do, which is slow down and talk to me. (Yes, I really am that kind of evil running partner)
“Well I cried at work yesterday” she said. Read the complete blog.
Online French and German Green Belt Courses
First-ever for Online Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training
MoreSteam.com just released French and German versions of its Lean Six Sigma Green Belt course. These newest additions to MoreSteam’s e-Learning catalog are the first complete Lean Six Sigma Green Belt courses presented in French and German by any online training provider.
MoreSteam’s new foreign-language Green Belt courses provide thorough coverage of the Lean and Six Sigma skills that professionals need to lead a complex process improvement project and produce bottom-line results. Each course includes approximately 50 hours of interactive lessons, quizzes and toolsets smartly presented within the DMAIC (Define - Measure – Analyze – Improve – Control) framework. Read more. |
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 Remember the seasoned New York entrepreneur who campaigned to become the Erie County Exec and pledged to run the county as a business? Well, Chris Collins just completed his first 18 months. It's been a bumpy entre into New York politics, but his Lean Six Sigma deployment is doing its part to trim the fat and build muscle. Results for the first wave of projects were published to deliver over $2.2 million in taxpayer savings last year and are expected to provide another $2.6 million in 2009. An additional wave of new projects is in the hopper fore
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to bring an additional $1 million in savings for the upcoming year.
The County posted detailed project summaries for eleven of the Lean Six Sigma projects completed last year. The summaries include project charters, highlights from each of the DMAIC steps, and tools used. Visit the Erie County Office of Six Sigma Web site to review these write-ups.
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Summer Reading
 So you’re heading on a vacation break, but you still want to read something of substance? MoreSteam.com is here to help with the first of our summer book recommendations. Our first is the non-fiction NYTimes best-seller Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell. You’ve probably heard of this book, released last November, but if you haven’t yet had a chance to read it, we propose that you move it to the top of your summer list.
A quick read, Outliers glides through more than ten distinctly different case studies, from Canadian junior hockey champions to the robber barons of the Gilded Age, from Asian math whizzes to software entrepreneurs to the Beatles, all of which address the central question of how and whether successful people are that much different from everyone else. Gladwell builds a convincing case that practice, opportunities, personal background, privilege and community support all add to the equation of success, and that such seeming “outliers” like Bill Gates achieve greatness through a complex set of circumstances, not simply superhuman intellect, athleticism, or other innate advantage.
We commented on this book in our blog last month and on how it can apply to Lean Six Sigma. Available in hardback, Outliers is available on Amazon.com and in local bookstores.
Fire Drills - Simulation or Powerpoint?
 We've been beating the drum of practice-based instruction pretty hard lately, because experience and common sense both tell us that Lean Six Sigma Black and Green Belts need simulated real-world experience in order to build capability. NBC weighed in on the subject in an episode of The Office. "PowerPoint is boring. People learn in lots of different ways, but experience is the best teacher." Watch Dwight modify his old PowerPoint approach to
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