Published Work
A Conceptual Framework for the Successful Implementation of Rapid Improvement Events
A Conceptual Framework for the Successful Implementation of Rapid Improvement Events, 2024, The Journal of Management and Engineering Integration, Vol. 17, No. 2 Winter 2024
Co-authored with William K Balzer, Chris Kluse, and Mikhail Shilov, this paper uses Balzer's model from Lean Higher Education 2nd Edition to explore what may go wrong in planning and delivering rapid improvement events.
Challenges to Lean Implementation in Higher Education
Challenges to the Implementation of Lean Practices in Higher Education, 2022, The Journal of Management and Engineering Integration, Vol. 15, No. 2 Winter 2022
Co-authored with Chris Kluse, this paper discusses the significant barriers to lean implementation in universities caused by the difference in cultures in higher education and the auto industry. Issues such as cost expectations, tangible vs intangible products, the focus of lean on core business vs 'admin', and the nature of competition are all explored.
Collaborative Problem Solving
Collaborative Problem Solving: A Guide to Improving Your Workplace, 2021, Routledge.
This book explains how to use curiosity, collaboration, and evidence-based thinking in working with teams to solve workplace problems. It introduces dozens of useful tools to help you do this.
Lessons from the Veterinary Teaching Hospital
Lessons from implementing lean at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, in Global Lean for Higher Education: A Themed Anthology of Case Studies, Approaches, and Tools, 2020, Routledge (Ed. Steve Yorkstone).
This chapter in Steve Yorkstone's Global Lean for Higher Education contrasts successfully implementing lean in a veterinary teaching hospital with the university wide attempt to implement lean.
Other Writing
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Challenges to the Implementation of Lean Practices in Higher Education, 2022, The Journal of Management and Engineering Integration, Vol. 15, No. 2 Winter 2022
Co-authored with Chris Kluse, this paper discusses the significant barriers to lean implementation in universities caused by the difference in cultures in higher education and the auto industry. Issues such as cost expectations, tangible vs intangible products, the focus of lean on core business vs 'admin', and the nature of competition are all explored.