Great to see Plan Do Check Act at work in healthcare. The photo to the left is from a hospital room. Note under the Pain Scale the space for “Today’s Plan” for which the “Identified Learner” (patient or guardian) is responsible for doing. Healthcare professionals check the progress and act to adjust the plan. Every day […]
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Among the many reasons Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) projects are successful is that there is an intense focus on bringing on the talent needed to build the project early in the planning process. Some owners, particularly in the public sector but also in some private enterprises, use funding authorizations to manage the release of subcontracts
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Some musings on the concept of work life balance: Why is the word “work” before “life?” (The one exception I was able to find was on the Navy Personnel Command web site, which refers to “life work balance.” Is the Navy the only enterprise that may have a healthier sense of priorities?) There is a related
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In his article “Knowledge-Worker Productivity: The Biggest Challenge” published in the Winter 1999 California Management Review, Peter Drucker includes these two statements: Knowledge work requires continuous learning on the part of the knowledge worker, but equally continuous teaching on the part of the knowledge worker. Continuous learning and continuous teaching have to be built into
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There is a Lean practice commonly known as “Going to Gemba” (apologies for the Japanese Lean jargon – sometimes there just isn’t a better English term). This practice is that of going to place where value is created and observing the work. Through observation, the individual develops their ability to see waste that might not
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And Know the Difference Between a Goal and a Plan If you think about it, we really don’t need too many goals in life. For example, an income goal probably is not truly a goal, but a plan for obtaining some other desire, such as the ability to vacation on a resort island, which itself
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Most of the miles logged by a serious endurance runner – those people who run half marathons, marathons and ultras – are accomplished at an easy pace. Runners who believe it a good idea to run all-out during every training run end up failing at races or worse injuring themselves. Serious runners will have only
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Something amazing happened in our household Sunday, November 6. It was 6:30 in the morning, and after finishing my morning workout in a nearby gym I met both my wife and daughter, already in our basement gym, busy with their workouts. The experience of our entire household up and active at 6:30 in the morning
Did you notice the difference between the original Star Trek series five-year mission speech and the version of that speech at the end of the last Star Trek motion picture? In the original television series the mission is voices by William Shatner as Captain Kirk. In the latest motion picture different parts of the same
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Plus: Team works and plans collaboratively, developing plans that consider needs of other trades. Delta: Everyone will document their weekly work plans more completely prior to the meeting; Allow more time and energy to complete the Plus-Delta review.
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