Greg Jacobson
Recent Posts
What is Lean Healthcare?
December 16, 2020Lean healthcare is simply the use of the Lean business management philosophy in healthcare facilities. The goal of Lean is to reduce or...
How to Craft and Implement a Strategy Deployment Plan
September 14, 2018One of the most essential responsibilities of leaders is making sure that activities are driven by the strategic goals and objectives of...
How to Establish a Foundation for Process Improvement in Healthcare
September 6, 2018It seems like every other day or so, I come across an article detailing how the American health care system is “broken.” These articles are...
The Best Alternative to a Kanban Board in Excel
August 16, 2018Microsoft Excel is one of the most widely used applications on the planet. I know exactly why. It’s amazingly flexible, most people know...
Engaging Leaders & the Baldrige Framework to Advance Excellence
February 11, 2020Mary Greeley Medical Center is a 220-bed acute care hospital in Ames, Iowa. It’s also a leading facility in continuous improvement.
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The CAPA Software Buyer’s Guide
June 5, 2018Correcting and preventing problems are two of the most important things that any organization can do. That’s the driving force behind the...
Considering Change Management Software? Don’t Overlook Reporting.
April 10, 2018If you are in the market for change management software, we’d like to help. One of the most frequent questions we get asked is what to look...
Why is Hoshin Kanri so Valuable?
March 30, 2018The practice of Hoshin Kanri, also called Policy Deployment or Strategy deployment, is about the alignment of individual goals and...
How Software Amplifies the Impact of Kaizen
April 18, 2018In 1986, Masaaki Imai founded the Kaizen Institute Consulting Group (KICG) to help western companies to introduce the concepts, systems,...

