Two Gurus

We have just posted the final two video talks from our last Lean Summit on our YouTube Channel, featuring two lean missionaries who are making a big contribution to the lean movement.

Mike Rother gave a stunning presentation on his latest research into the Kata discipline of learning and acting. This brings his book Toyota Kata to life and show how important it is to coach and practice Kata. For those who want to go deeper there is more on the Improvement and Coaching Kata site on the LEI web site.

Michael Ballé gave a challenging and inspiring presentation on coaching leaders and employees on the Gemba. This talk distilled his thinking and practice in coaching organisations in France and elsewhere and developed themes from his books The Gold Mine and The Lean Manager. Many of you will also be familiar with his Gemba Coach column on the LEI web site and his contributions to The Lean Edge.

We hope you enjoyed these videos from our Lean Summit and hope to see you at our next Summit on 5-7 November 2013 – details to follow shortly.

Yours sincerely
Daniel T Jones
Chairman, Lean Enterprise Academy

Policy Deployment in Healthcare

We have just posted five more video talks from our last Lean Summit telling a remarkable story of the power of using policy deployment in healthcare. Two years ago, inspired by a talk from Takashi Tanaka, David Furley leading the lean transformation at the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust went home determined to do this too. Two years later he returned with his team to show how policy deployment has not only given focus to their transformation journey but has also significantly changed the way management meetings are run and the behaviour of employees at every level in the organisation.

These videos tell this story from four levels from Director level to the Wards. The passion and inspiration of these stories are worth watching and sharing to inspire your colleagues, whatever industry you are in. They complement the pioneering stories of the use of Plan for Every patient and Visual Hospital at the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust at our 2011 lean Summit. Together they form two aspects of a management system described in Making Hospitals Work that is delivering significantly better performance

within the NHS.                                                 

Yours sincerely

Daniel T Jones

Chairman, Lean Enterprise Academy