Chapter 10

Lean Technology

It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions... Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

—Steve Jobs1

Case studies: Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA; Swedish Hospital, Issaquah, WA; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA

Introduction

Chapter 6 depicted the ways in which standardizing work spaces can save time and build a degree of safety and reliability into a new building. With most things in the ...

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