Lean Collaborative Networks discussed on Business901 Podcast

Feb. 11, 2013 - PRLog -- Dean Bliss, a Lean Healthcare Coach for the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative and a board member of the Iowa Lean Consortium, discussed what it takes to create and sustain these before mentioned initiatives. Dean assists healthcare organizations in learning and applying continuous improvement activities and philosophy. He is an original member of the IHC’s Lean workgroup, which has conducted statewide Lean healthcare conferences and Lean learning opportunities since 2005.

The transcription with a link to the podcast is available at Lean Collaborative Networks ( http://business901.com/blog1/lean-collaborative-networks/ ).

Dean joined IHC in August 2011, after 6 years working in healthcare in various Lean consultant roles and 25 years at Rockwell Collins, an aerospace and communications electronics company. In addition to his Lean and healthcare knowledge, Dean has gained experience in areas including Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, and Facilities management. Dean has spoken at numerous Lean conferences and seminars throughout the country.

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About Business901 (http://business901.com):provides direction in areas such as Lean Marketing and Lean Services. Joe Dager is president of Business901, a firm specializing in bringing the continuous improvement process to the sales and marketing arena.  He takes his process thinking of over thirty years in marketing within a wide variety of industries and applies it through Lean Marketing Concepts.

Joe has participated with companies involved in retail, manufacturing, software and professional services along their quality journey. In these companies, Joe developed and implemented sales and marketing strategies. Always being a process thinker, he attached Lean to the way of implementing sales and marketing and has advanced those practices through Design Thinking and Service Design concepts. The Business901 Blog and Podcast include many leading edge thinkers and been featured numerous times for its contributions to the Bloomberg’s Business Week Exchange. Joe has authored four books with the most recent published this year, The Lean Engagement Team.