In an innovative cross-industry collaboration, clinicians at Great Ormond Street Hospital applied Formula 1 pit stop principles to high-risk patient handovers from the operating room to the intensive care unit (ICU). Recognizing that the transfer phase was a period of significant risk characterized by role confusion and communication breakdowns, doctors studied the Ferrari and Williams […]
Christy Cook, co-host of the Going Zero podcast, is joined by Mike Wrathall, an sustainability strategist who’s helped organizations across sectors, from social housing to defense, navigate complexity and accelerate their impact on the environment. Mike shares his journey from a childhood passion for recycling to leading sustainability and climate strategy efforts at major firms […]
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In this podcast, Gemma Jones from SPARK Improvement shares her experiences with team members facing a mental health challenge and how Continuous Improvement and mental health intersect. She shares how a team member’s struggle with mental health and depression affected her deeply and personally. She had worked closely with this individual for several months on […]
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Tony Lamberton, CEO, The Learning Trust and Kate Unsworth, Principal at Christleton International Studio shares how they have applied lean management to education, and how their lean school aims higher, trying to rethink learning altogether. The Christleton Learning Trust wanted to change from “manufacturing” children for life (push model) to focusing on developing their talent (pull model). […]
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Christleton Learning Trust in the UK is running several lean experiments across its three schools. Tony Lamberton, the CEO of Christleton Learning Trust, shared how coaching is supporting the transformation. The lean journey for Christleton Learning Trust began when they attended a training course at Toyota to understand the lean process. They first applied the […]
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Sarah Williams, Head of Student Services at Christleton High School in England, shares the work the school is doing to improve the delivery of education to students with special needs using lean thinking. In 2013, the school was told there would be budget cuts and they started to look into opportunities to make the Students […]
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