Skip to Main Content
Leveraging Lean in Ancillary Hospital Services
book

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
Content preview from Leveraging Lean in Ancillary Hospital Services
309
Appendix: Glossary
Activity-based costing: Developed in the late 1980s by Robert Kaplan and Robin Cooper of
Harvard Business School. It is primarily concerned with the cost of indirect activities
within a company and their relationships to the manufacturing of specic products. The
basic technique of activity-based costing is to analyze the indirect costs within an organi-
zation and to discover the activities that cause those costs.
Afnity diagram: One of the seven management tools to assist general planning. It organizes dis-
parate language information by placing it on cards and grouping the cards that go together
in some creative way.
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Internet Yellow Pages, 2007 Edition

Internet Yellow Pages, 2007 Edition

Mikal E. Belicove, Joe Kraynak
The Lean Healthcare Dictionary

The Lean Healthcare Dictionary

Rona Consulting Rona Consulting Group

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781482237290