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Making the Lean Leap
Featured Article recently published in AMD & More Magazine, authored by Mike Boucher, VP of Client Services. Continue reading
Resolving Conflicting Pressures between Budget and Lean
Q. How do we resolve the conflicting pressures of budgets and Lean? Plus, how do we ensure that the pressures of cost savings dont drive the wrong behaviors?
Here are some of the consolidated thoughts and ideas that were shared by the participants of the Lean Executive Day workshop on Resolving Conflicting Pressures. Continue reading
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BI enhances turnaround time in pathology reporting in Kitchener
Waiting for pathology test results doesn’t only create anxiety for patients. It can also cause strain in the hospital laboratory, particularly when it seems clinical staff can never get ahead of the reporting backlog and really don’t understand why it’s there in the first place. Continue reading
Pathology Department at Grand River Hospital and St Marys General Hospital Increases Throughput, Cuts Costs using Lean
In healthcare today, having to do more with less goes with the territory. Volumes are increasing five to ten percent every year, regulatory and administrative burdens are becoming more restrictive, and wait times are rising. Continue reading
Achieving Support Lean Executive Day Summary
How do we achieve support at all levels (Leadership, Middle
Management and Staff) – Initially and Ongoing? And how do you
deal with skeptics, naysayers and silent passive resistors? Continue reading
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The Importance of Lean Leadership Support
Leader Involvement When the leader gets intimately involved in changes in the office or on the shop floor it sends a clear signal that improvement is important to the organization. This is particularly critical at the start of a lean … Continue reading
Lean Thinking- Cultivating the Right Culture
It is true that most of us feel the technical aspect of implementing lean is easier, or at least more straightforward, than the human or cultural aspects of making these changes. We often hear the comments, “Everyone resists change, Everyone … Continue reading
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Lean Executive Day: Feb 7th, 2012
Lean Executive Day, Feb. 7, 2012 – Lean expert practitioners, from various sectors including healthcare, government, service and manufacturing, will be meeting for a day to discuss their experiences, share their ideas and assist each other in the challenges they … Continue reading
How do we integrate Six Sigma and Lean?
What is Lean? One of the common questions we have been asked by leadership from the hundreds of companies/organization we work with is “How do we integrate Six Sigma and Lean?” or “We have implemented Six Sigma, how will lean … Continue reading
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Lean reaches ultimate success with Stellar & Starbucks
Lean Advisors, Inc., was asked by Stellar Design and Construction Ltd. to join them at their conference held in Florida recently. The message they wanted to convey to the audience was of the experience of working with Stellar on designing … Continue reading
