Aug 11, 2015 | Book Reviews
Dr Toussaint recently released his third book ‘Management on the Mend: The Healthcare Executive Guide to System Transformation’. It provides a comprehensive view of the framework required for Lean Transformation illustrating learnings from proven systems, and methods...
May 28, 2015 | Book Reviews
In On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the Industry, the authors, John Toussaint and Roger Gerard, talk to us about Thedacare’s lean journey. Within their hospital group, they decisively confirm the case for evidence-based delivery of...
May 26, 2015 | Book Reviews
Review written by Jimmy Psillos, CEO of Crystal Candy in Zimbabwe who is actively involved with the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries and chairs the Economics and Banking Committee of the chamber. Zimbabwean businesses are struggling to compete in a very tough...
May 26, 2015 | Book Reviews
Clear Direction: Drive the right change in the right way, written by Rose Heathcote, is about striving for operational excellence by continuously reinforcing the basics. Heathcote succeeds in reviving a much written about topic with a simplified, integrated...
May 11, 2015 | Book Reviews
Thinking, Fast and Slow written by Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, is a summary of Kahneman’s research conducted since the early 1970’s in collaboration with Amos Tversky (died 1996). Thinking, Fast and Slow offers a psychological basis for...
Mar 5, 2015 | Book Reviews
In Toyota Kata Mike Rother shares knowledge and insight gained while working at Toyota and learning the Toyota approach to management. In this book ‘kata’ refers to the organisational routines that in Toyota allows for continuous improvement, adaption and employee...
