How Artificial Intelligence Strategies Drive The Future of Lean Healthcare
Lean principles first appeared in healthcare in the 1990s, when healthcare costs began to soar. At the time, lean healthcare ...
Lean Leadership: Three Tips for Building a Strengths-Based Workplace
The Importance of a Strengths-Based Workplace Developing Lean processes and procedures is only half the battle when creating a Lean ...
What is Lean Healthcare? 5 Hallmarks of Lean Healthcare Practice
Lean practices stem back to the 1930s when Toyota officially rolled out its Toyota Production System. This system was a ...
Continuous Improvement: How to Leverage Frontline Workers
When it comes to continuous improvement, solutions aren't always as obvious as they may initially seem. Picture a long ...
7 Tips for Identifying and Eliminating Waste in Emergency Departments
Eliminating Waste in Emergency Departments Wait times in emergency rooms are on the rise across the nation. People continue to ...
Top 3 Strategies for Integrating Lean Concepts in Healthcare Practices
While lean strategies and concepts were first developed in the manufacturing world, they have far-reaching benefits in almost any ...
Four Women Who Left Their Mark in the World of Lean
The Roots of Lean While the birth of Lean is attributed to Motorola in the 1980s, many of today's lean ...
Powering the Lean Enterprise, by Bill Artzberger
Bill Artzberger’s new book, Powering the Lean Enterprise: Fundamentals of Lean for Super-Charging Your Company & Your Life, may be ...
Don’t be Afraid to Experiment
Late last year, I finally traded in my trusty Ford Focus for a new (to me) lightly used 2014 Ford ...
Lean Auto Safety
The National Safety Council estimates 38,300 people were killed and 4.4 million injured on U.S. roads in 2015, which saw ...