A continual improvement process, also often called a continuous improvement process (abbreviated as CIP or CI), is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes. These efforts can seek “incremental” improvement over time or “breakthrough” improvement all at once. Delivery (customer valued) processes are constantly evaluated and improved in the light of their efficiency, effectiveness and flexibility.
Give a listen… My guest today is Tim Pettry, Program Director for Continuous Improvement at the Cleveland Clinic’s Akron General (CCAG) Hospital where he directs the implementation of a Culture of Improvement for over 5,500 caregivers, utilizing the Cleveland Clinic Improvement Model. One of the biggest “take-aways” of this conversation is the difference in syntax…
You can read the summary… Or just give a listen… What do you do when the co-host forgets to come to the session? Well, at The Outliers Inn, you just roll with it. Indeed, “Mule” didn’t show up so I called upon one of our regulars, Don “The Beer Man” Burshnick to stand in without…
About the Podcast My guest today is Kevin Robinson, Managing Director of OPEX Performance Solutions Ltd and Toyota Alumni; having spent over 28 years at Toyota UK at the Deeside Engine Plant; starting as an Engineer in 1991 and working his way up the ranks until retiring as the General Manager of Manufacturing Operations. Rather…
About the Podcast My guest today is Steven Leuschel, Director of Operational Excellence at Guardian Elder Care, with a network of elderly care facilities located across Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Eastern Ohio. He has published several books including;• “Lean Culture Change: Using a Daily Management System”• “The Executive Guide to Lean Culture Change”, a…
Mule and JP start the show with a topic that morphs as rapidly as a cicada’s wings and which is about as irritating; the COVID rules and regulations du jour. JP shares his latest experience with traveling between Germany and the States. Whereas arriving to the States is a matter of having a right to…
Alfred Sloan, the man who presided over the spectacular rise of General Motors to the top of Corporate America from 1920s to 1960s and indeed most credited for creating the modern form of business corporation as we know it, had a very complex love and hate relationship with the man who did the most to…
