Lean operations will make your growth more significant, and prevent pain when the business stops booming.
Don't miss this three-part series offering insight on how these solutions will need to be incorporated into healthcare, such as growing outpatient care and more cost-efficient inpatient care as well as employing Lean strategies to create spaces where providers can conduct
Lean operations.
Black, who is a consultant who helps healthcare organizations implement
Lean operations, pioneered Lean at The Boeing Company.
While the concept of lean production is not new, the challenges of dramatic change management can stymie business leaders trying to put
lean operations into place.
As anyone familiar with the notion of
lean operations and just-in-time inventory knows, the more turns the better.
This book on
Lean operations focuses on the most basic and fundamental part of Lean, called quick and easy Kaizen, whereby each employee contributes and implements on the average one, and sometimes two, improvement ideas per month.
"Competition for the procurement award was intense but we have the same commitment to
lean operations management that Parker does," explained Michael Brennan, vice president of Eagle Nonwovens.
Privately-owned, the company's IP revenue grew 50% in 2001 due to its popular product line and
lean operations model.
* Principles of
lean operations to reduce waste, accelerate processing speed and improve service quality.
The company's business system for
lean operations aims to help healthcare and other organisations reduce costs, enhance quality outcomes, boost throughput and book higher revenues.
Public pronouncements (generally given during industry speeches) notwithstanding,
lean operations are the exception, not the rule in this industry.
M2 EQUITYBITES-August 31, 2015-Technavio publishes increased focus on
lean operations