Connecting the Dots

Skip Steward
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Dec 3, 2020 • 31min

Dr. Eric Dickson, President & CEO – UMass Memorial Health Care

We speak to Dr. Dickson about his journey with Continuous Improvement, getting physicians involved in experimentation, and loving & serving his team members at UMass Memorial Health Care.
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Nov 19, 2020 • 1h 1min

Dr. Steven Spear; the influence of Mr. Oba, The High-Velocity Edge, and the impact on Health Care

We speak to renowned author & speaker Dr. Steven J. Spear about systems with practical management insights. Spear’s work focuses on the theme of leading complex collaborative situations, imbuing them with powerful problem solving dynamics. The High Velocity Edge earned the Crosby Medal from ASQ. “Fixing Healthcare from the Inside” won a Harvard Business Review McKinsey Award, and five of Spear’s articles won Shingo Prizes. “Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System” is a leading HBR reprint and part of the “lean” canon. He’s written for medical professionals and educators in Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, and Health Services Research, for public school superintendents in Academic Administrator, and for the general public in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Fortune, and USA Today.
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Nov 12, 2020 • 45min

Rich Sheridan, Building a Workplace of JOY

 Richard Sheridan, one of Menlo Innovation’s founders and Chief Storytellers, which has given more than 1000 talks to audiences around the world and written the bestselling and widely celebrated book, Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love and his second book, Chief Joy Officer joins us to discuss what he has learned about building a workplace of JOY.
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Nov 5, 2020 • 35min

Dr. Lisa Yerian & Cleveland Clinic’s Continuous Improvement Journey

Dr. Lisa Yerian, Chief Improvement Officer at Cleveland Clinic shares the story of how they are creating a culture of Continuous Improvement.
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Oct 29, 2020 • 34min

TWI Job Instructions (JI)

We talk about Training Within Industry (TWI) Job Instructions and the role it can play to provide consistent high quality patient care.
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Oct 22, 2020 • 31min

Standardization and 6 Starter Questions

We talk about what standardized work is, the importance of it in healthcare, and ask some simple questions to help leaders discover what is occurring at the actual place where value-creating work actually occurs.
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Oct 15, 2020 • 35min

Pascal Dennis on Strategic Deployment and Alignment

Pascal Dennis reviews his years at Toyota and various industries with performance improvement. He also speaks about his new book Harnessing Digital Disruption, How companies win with Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean Startup
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Oct 8, 2020 • 31min

Dr. Paul DePriest: CI journey, Standardization, Ideal Principle Based Behaviors

Dr. Paul DePriest serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation. He is the first physician to serve as executive vice president and chief operating officer for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation. Dr. DePriest joined Baptist in 2012 as senior vice president and chief medical officer. He holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Eastern Kentucky University, an MD from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and a master's degree in healthcare management from the Harvard School of Public Health. After medical school, Dr. DePriest completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology and a fellowship in gynecological oncology at the University of Kentucky Medical Center.
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Oct 1, 2020 • 26min

Starting the Conversation

Skip Steward and Dr. Harvey Mason start the conversation about the Baptist Management System (BMS). Connecting the Dots Podcast will be a conversation about how different parts of BMS work together and areas of success & struggle. There will be times when we invite other leaders on to share how they think of continuous improvement in their organization.

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