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Leveraging Lean in Ancillary Hospital Services
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Leveraging Lean in Ancillary Hospital Services

by Charles Protzman, Joyce Kerpchar, George Mayzell
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
354 pages
15h 2m
English
Productivity Press
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Lean Foundation
In God we trust. All others bring data.
—W. Edwards Deming
LEAN FOUNDATION - THE BASICS MODEL - BASELINE
think—see—aCt Lean
The Lean journey begins with becoming familiar with the Lean concepts, potential Lean results,
and successes and lessons learned from other organizations. One must realize that, in order to
become Lean, the organization will need to undergo a cultural transformation.
We discussed earlier that Lean is a new way of thinking, seeing, and acting.
To THINK LEAN one must think about eliminating waste in every aspect of what is done
every day.
To SEE LEAN is to be able to see and learn what waste is and how to ...
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ISBN: 9781482237290