Lean leadership is (and remains) fundamentally about one thing: respect for people. In health care, lean leaders exist to serve the next level closer to the patient and maximize value for both ...

Converting non-productive time into customer-focused, productive time enables any organization to grow revenue faster than cost. This course prepares participants to implement tools of the ...

Lean concepts, once the mainstay of the manufacturing industry, are becoming increasingly integrated into health care to improve functions and decrease costs. These concepts will be the topic of the ...

Lean manufacturing, which originated as the Toyota Production System, is one of the most well-known process strategies in modern manufacturing. It migrated to the U.S. in the 1950s and began to draw ...

Simply put, lean is the practice of creating more value with fewer resources. The concept is inspired by the Japanese management theory from Toyota, where lean concepts are designed to improve and ...

Lean manufacturers have a leg up on speeding products to market, reducing costs and keeping customers happy. In this overview, I’ll share how to engineer, set up and manage the project for a lean ...

Lean concepts and methods have a bit of a reputation for being “anti-innovation.” All the talk of standardization tends to be off-putting to some who claim that the focus on consistency hinders ...

Lean management principles such as Jidoka and Andon can significantly contribute to Lean Laboratory performance. The new “First-Defect-Stop Guide” from METTLER TOLEDO advocates rapid identification ...

A continuous quality improvement program, based on Lean concepts and including architectural, managerial, and organizational features, allows the emptying of emergency department corridors and the ...

Virginia Tech is helping to sponsor workshops on doing more with less in the wood products industry. Here is more information from the university: Virginia Cooperative Extension, the Department of ...