Can your team members articulate the most important goals for the organization? How do you ensure that process improvement efforts in the organization are helping you meet important goals? Achieving a culture of continuous improvement that leads to high performance requires that everyone in the organization has clarity around what matters to the organization. True […]
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Are you starting or restarting your improvement journey? Do you know what you want to achieve in this transformation? Is there a clear vision of what your organization should look like? Our experience has taught us that one of the leadership practices fundamental to initiating and sustaining a lean transformation is to “go and see” […]
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Cultural Transformation Begins With You. Get Involved EDUCATION EVENTS STORE NETWORKS RESOURCES Greetings! The rapidly changing reimbursement environment and trend to public reporting in healthcare necessitates improved quality and efficiency. This shift has led many organizations to pursue continuous improvement efforts. Organizations successfully applying lean across the United States and around the world to increase […]
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Lean Healthcare in Tanzania: Meeting demand for high quality, affordable eye care Summary In a country of 47.5 million people, it is estimated that 3.5 million Tanzanians live with a disability. There are lasting, severe consequences to delayed treatment of physical impairments, including malnutrition for people with cleft lip/palate, painful mobility for […]
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Transformation Journeys are the latest addition to the Center portfolio of products/services to help transform the healthcare industry. Transformation Journeys are partnerships with a select number of healthcare delivery organizations across North America. The Center brings together the best thought leaders, consultants, faculty and coaches, using the transformation house (as described in our book, Management […]
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Below is a list of frequently asked questions. When each group meets to review performance, what is the process when performance is poor and corrective actions are needed? In the measures, performance is either “Red” or “Green,” you’re either meeting the goal or not meeting the goal. If it’s “Red” for two months in […]
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In January, the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value added a team member to start building educational products to help transform healthcare. Steven Bollinger comes to the Center with experience in publishing books and videos designed to share lean knowledge with the manufacturing industry. As part of the introduction to the team, we invited him to […]
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Dr. Womack did “gemba” along with Maureen Bisognano CEO of IHI, Randy Linton M.D. CEO of Luther Middefort /Mayo Clinic, Orry Fiume author of Real Numbers and former CFO of Wiremold, George Koenigsaecker former president of Hon now HNI, and Helen Zak President of the Healthcare Value Leaders Network. These leaders visited the Encircle multispecialty ambulatory care […]
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The 3rd entry in this series on organizational transformation using lean comes again,under the rubric of Process:Transparency is one of the keys to improvement but there are critical core characteristics of implementation that can make or break success. Admitting mistakes is not easy. Look at the problems Toyota is dealing with because of their […]
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