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ere is also a substantive difference in the scope of lean thinking and inno-
vation as it potentially applies to organizational operations in healthcare service
delivery. Lean thinking has the potential to be an organization’s overarching man-
agement method. at is, it can become the way an organization fundamentally
approaches all that it does, whether it is being innovative or simply doing reliably
what it and others have traditionally done. Many healthcare organizations are miss-
ing the power of lean thinking because they only dabble in it, along with a variety
of other methods, on a project- by- project basis. Lean can be helpful that way, but it
is most powerful when it is seen as a per ...