Managing Customer Value
Jim Huntzinger has over twenty years experience developing lean enterprises through system design and development, implementation, and guiding organizations both strategically and tactically through the transformation process. Currently he is the president and founder of the Lean Accounting Summit, TWI Summit, and Lean and Green Summit. The podcast is a good introduction to TWI and Read More …
When I watch this video, I can only think how many times that I have done this! When you think of managing your queue, what causes a story, task or even a customer to get shuffled like this? The frustration occurs of course because there is little if any management of the queue. In a Read More …
Carol Ptak, a recent guest on my podcast said… A lot of people have focused on the fact that the Economic times right now are really bad. What a lot of people are missing is the fact that the world around us has fundamentally changed. A we see now across the world is that we Read More …
In this blog post Story of Going Lean in Healthcare: On the Mend and in a recent podcast, Transforming Healthcare thru Lean. I was introduced to the 5 Stages of Change outlined by one of the co-authors, John Toussaint, MD. Recently, when I was reading the book Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment Read More …
John Toussaint, M.D., CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value was my Podcast guest this week. From 2000 to 2008, Dr. Toussaint served as president and chief executive officer of ThedaCare, Inc., a community-owned, four-hospital health system including twenty-one physician clinics, as well as home health capabilities, senior care facilities, hospice care, and behavioral Read More …
There is more data than you really know what to do with and that’s a major concern, collecting unnecessary data is wasteful and harmful. It just adds a lot of noise. You need a template to follow. You have to look at meaningful data as your customer sees it. One of the reasons I am Read More …