Dr. Tim's Site (Dr. Timothy D. Hill is a consulting Industrial and Organizational Psychologist)

Dr. Timothy D. Hill, Ph.D., CLSSBB, PMP International Consulting Industrial & Organizational Psychologist & Educator

Canada's leader in Lean best practices with people and processes -- "Providing Working Solutions to Human Resources Problems" by aligning people with their work.

Collaboration

With The Leading Edge Group

The Leading Edge Group (See: link was established in 1995 to provide healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, and supply chain management improvement solutions to organizations on a global level. The company has worked on over 800 consulting and educational projects with over 250 multinational corporations worldwide, including Dell, Pfizer, Roche, Abbott, Pepsi Cola, Boston Scientific, Stryker Orthopaedics, and Invensys.

In with the UK NHS at the start of their Lean journey, the Leading Edge Group has been successful in building a strong Canadian client base, incorporating both healthcare and non-healthcare organizations. Some of our non-healthcare clients include the Canadian Tire Corporation, Advanced Fiber Technologies, Honeywell, Sleeman Breweries, Celanese, Best Buy Canada, and Tim Hortons.

Dr. Tim serves as The Leading Edge Group's Lean in Healthcare North American lead consultant and subject matter expert.

With Express Professionals

Dr. Tim has been invited to deliver a number of business seminar series with Express. Click on the ticket to see more about this seminar series.

Training & Workshops

Dr. Tim's Lifelong Lean Efforts Awarded

Dr. Tim and one of his mentors, Masaaki Imai at the Second Canadian Quality Congress

Dr. Tim (left) receiving recognition from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Toronto Chapter 26. Dr. Juergen Boenisch (right) is Chair. 2008.

Lean game participants in a manufacturing setting.

Len Nanjan (L) and Dr. Tim at the Strategic Leadership Forum

Lean Writings to Share

Lean Insights Column in Manufacturing Automation

Words of wisdom: Three pieces of Lean advice

Lean and your leaders: How to get them out of the office and to the gemba

Making the case for Lean: It's more than just a toolbox

Top 25 Lean tips: Making Lean a success

The road to Lean: Identifying and prioritizing wastes

Measuring your Lean results

Go to the gemba: How to use kaizen effectively

The great belt debate: How many people do I need to train?

Eight tips to building a value stream map

If at first you don't succeed, try Lean again

Don't blame the Toyota Production System, Part 1

Don't blame the Toyota Production System, Part 2

Recall woes challenge lean ‘Toyota Way’

When is 5S Lean?

Avoid the drive-by kaizen

Lean and performance management

Is your Lean implementation all talk?

Lean trick question: Did you know late starts early?

Is free too expensive? Measure what you manage in Lean

Lean 101: Insight, advice and a book review

Making Lean a success: With Lean, it's good to be excited, but being prepared is better

Keeping Lean Successes

Not Only the Tools: Starting Lean Projects

Human Capital

Lean in Healthcare

How the car industry could inspire a better health system. The Cork News. March 9, 2012.
From: Lean Healthcare Connect: Improving Healthcare from the Toyota Factory Floor
Improving Healthcare from the Toyota Factory Floor
Assembly required: National Post article
Starting with Dr. Tim's Lean Healthcare Webinar
Lean In Healthcare -- Cuts Don't Cut It
Why Canada Needs More
Anatomical Pathology -- the Factory of the Hospital
What Really Drives Wait Times
The Emergency Room Value Stream
The Operating Room Value Stream
Lean Logistics & Supply Chain for Healthcare
The Patient's View (Voice of the Customer)
Eliminating Healthcare Error Rates
Lean to Remove Bias in Healthcare Problem Solving
Sustaining Lean in Healthcare
Coming Soon! The Ontario Lean Healthcare Readiness Survey

Older Items

Dr. Tim's LinkedIn Group: "Keeping Lean Successes (Manufacturing and Healthcare) "
SME Special Tech Group: The Human Side of Lean -- July 27 Invited Presentation, "Helping YOUR people to see time and money in your value streams"
From Manufacturing Innovation Network: Canadian Manufacturing Insights: How the auto industry could save Canadian health care
July 29, Invitation to blog and moderate discussions in the Manufacturers Innovation Network as Canada's Lean expert
Coming in the fall from Productivity Press -- "The Future of Lean in Healthcare" This is the invited concluding chapter in "Applying Lean in Healthcare – A Collection of International Case Studies"
July 22, McArthur in the Morning, AM 980 in London. Dr. Tim was answering questions about his assessment of our healthcare system and whether or not it's a good idea for the United States to follow the Canadian example
July 21, Dave Dickson, "Afternoon Edition" at BC's CFAX 1070. Dr. Tim was interviewed about the importance of fixing healthcare in Canada and the Lean/TPS tools we need to do this.
July 20, Globe and Mail Live Webinar - How the auto industry could save Canadian Health Care
July 18, 2009, Globe and Mail (BC) Lean in Healthcare article -- "A clear vision for better healthcare" Justine Hunter
Invited Presentation to the Strategic Leadership Forum: Can you make Lean Sigma work? Setting the necessary human capital foundation for better operations
Dr. Tim's comments on Mitt Romney's New York TImes Editorial on the Old Big 3 Bailout Plans
eLean MBA: Consistent Lean Leadership: Building Lean Reliably Across Locations: Free interactive web presentation of the first chapter of "Consistent Lean Leadership"
The Small Business Advisor Series inspired this workshop since small business drives most of the economy and small business owners deserve good answers.

Dr. Tim's home page is kyoseicanada.ca. Kyosei means getting in harmony with the world and living and working together for the common good. By operating according to this philosophy, we build understanding and harmony with individuals, society, and the environment. Kyosei is the development of ideals for personal life, business and community that dates back to Confucian and Daoist Philosophies. The Confucian Trader is the first instance of business ethics.

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