{"id":2171,"date":"2013-02-25T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2013-02-21T10:50:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T10:50:25","slug":"improving-improvement-mindset-making-it-happen-and-measurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/improving-improvement-mindset-making-it-happen-and-measurement\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving improvement: mindset, making it happen and measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In many sectors we find some of the ideas of \u2018continuous improvement\u2019 ring true: and there is growing curiosity from quality, to Six Sigma<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/resources\/lean_thinking.shtml \" rel=\"nofollow\"> to Lean<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihi.org\/offerings\/IHIOpenSchool\/resources\/Pages\/BobLloydWhiteboard.aspx#3\" rel=\"nofollow\">this is <\/a>the single best page (with a number of resources and videos) to get you into some of the simple concepts for an improvement mindset \u2013 thanks to IHI for posting this freely.<\/p>\n<p>And also from health care, we like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Za1o77jAnbw&amp;feature=youtu.be\" rel=\"nofollow\">this video <\/a>from the NHS Institute that helps health care workers think about\u00a0the measurement to know if any attempt at change is an improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Why so much from health care? Well leaders and improvement specialists in that sector have had to work very hard to ensure the attraction and acceptability of these ideas to colleagues who are not \u2018scientific management\u2019 geeks and experts. And we think they have done that pretty well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In many sectors we find some of the ideas of \u2018continuous improvement\u2019 ring true: and there is growing curiosity from quality, to Six Sigma to Lean. We think this is the single best page (with a number of resources and videos) to get you into some of the simple concepts for an improvement mindset \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[148],"tags":[29,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}