A Blissful discussion on Collaboratives

This week’s podcast is with Dean Bliss, a Lean Healthcare Coach for the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative and a board member of the Iowa Lean Consortium. He assists healthcare organizations in learning and applying continuous improvement activities and philosophy. He is an original member of the IHC’s Lean workgroup, which has conducted statewide Lean healthcare conferences Read More …

Is Iowa the Hotbed of Lean

The Iowa Healthcare Collaborative and Iowa Lean Consortium will be the topic of conversation on the Business901 Podcast this week. My guest is Dean Bliss, a Lean Healthcare Coach for the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative (IHC). He assists Healthcare organizations in learning and applying continuous improvement activities and philosophy. He is an original member of the Read More …

Collaboration thru Technology

In a recent podcast I had the pleasure of interviewing Liz Guthridge, the founder of Connect Consulting Group. We discussed Lean, Smart Mobs, Peer to Peer Networks and Crowdsourcing. A lot of ground in thirty minutes. Below is a transcription of the podcast, Relationship Building thru Technology At Connect Consulting Group, Liz helps leaders implement Read More …

Project and Change Management Simplified eBook

In a recent podcast, Project and Change Management Simplified, Bob Lewis president of IT Catalysts discussed his specialty project and change management.  This is a transcription of the podcast. Since 1996, when he started his “Survival Guide” column in InfoWorld, Bob has been in the forefront of a guerrilla movement in how businesses should design Read More …

Dr. Deming on Lean in 2012

Actually, I was not able to pull that off. Instead, I interviewed what I consider one of the, if not the best source on Dr. Deming, John Hunter. John has an interesting lineage with Dr. Deming and in the interview, we talked about some of that history and why the thoughts of Dr. Deming have Read More …

Project and Change Management Simplified

“When employees resist change, it isn’t because they’re stupid. It’s because they’re smart,” says Bob Lewis. Bob is the president of IT Catalysts and author of Bare Bones Project Management: What you can’t not do and Bare Bones Change Management: What you shouldn’t not do. With titles like this, how could you not buy these Read More …