Lean Leadership for Healthcare

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to direct your critical few improvement resources on the most strategic areas.

Many organizations struggle because they have a lot of Lean improvement, but

not all of it is strategic, and, therefore, it does not add up to anything meaning-

ful in terms of results.

Finally, I’d like to offer a few other key points on adding value streams

within your organization:

◾ ere is a limit to the number of value streams in which your organiza-

tion can engage at any one time. is threshold is based upon several

criteria, including organizational headcount, infrastructure (improve-

ment resources), and your ability to sustain improvement. Only add an

additional value stream after you have sustained improvement in the ...