Tag: Benchmarking

Reader Question: How Many People & How Much Time for Improvement?

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A Lean-thinking physician from Canada asks how many people an organization or department should have in a dedicated Lean or continuous improvement function. How much time is needed from staff and managers?

What Did People Want to Talk About? Open Space & #Lean...

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Yesterday, Isaac Mitchell and I asked a group of Society for Health Systems Conference attendees what they wanted to talk about with peers and colleagues in the room. Here’s that list and how the discussion was structured…

What Lean is Lacking: Disco Medallions?

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When we lament why Lean hasn't been more widely embraced as a new management model in healthcare (or other industries, for that matter), it's...

Don’t Let Benchmarking Replace Your Own Process Engineering

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Through the @LEIhealthcare twitter account, one source of autotweets are the new threads started in the Lean Enterprise Institute forums. One new thread was started...