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Accelerating Health Care Transformation with Lean and Innovation
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Accelerating Health Care Transformation with Lean and Innovation

by Paul E. Plsek
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
216 pages
7h 22m
English
Productivity Press
Content preview from Accelerating Health Care Transformation with Lean and Innovation
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Foreword
Donald M. Berwick, MD
President Emeritus and Senior Fellow
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
In the spirit of innovation, I was tempted to write the shortest Foreword ever. If I
had done so, it would be this:
If you are in health care and this book doesn’t scare you, you are not paying attention.
But I could not find the courage, so, read on.
Let’s start with the overall theme: “Lean inking and Innovation.” At first
impression, that is oxymoronic. Lean thinking invests deeply in standardization;
wake up a Virginia Mason Production System expert suddenly at night, and he is
likely to mutter something about “standard work.” Innovation is ...
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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781482203837