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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
Supportive Infrastructure for Innovation ◾  103
to an individual to support early stage idea generation that might lead to break-
through innovation.
Similarly, Virginia Mason is also now exploring more formal support for the
lean concept of moonshine—creating physical prototypes and mock- up solutions to
problems in an offline laboratory. Moonshine labs, with supplies, equipment, and
engineers who can convert a concept or sketch into a working model, are common
in lean manufacturing companies like Toyota or Boeing. Such capability rarely
exists in a healthcare organization, but Virginia Mason is working to create it. e
current state of this work, and some practical examples, are described in more detail
in the next chapter.
Time will tell whet ...
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ISBN: 9781482203837