With a watchful eye on money coming in and out from patients, reimbursements, and donors, more healthcare organizations are closely examining existing internal processes to save their wallets and ...

My previous column ("Next Generation Lean: Lean Processes Need to Continuously Improve") laid out the premise that there is a significant disconnect between Lean results, namely that while there are a ...

Taichi Ohno, progenitor of the Toyota Production System, identified seven forms of waste, and lean insiders often add an eighth: the waste of human resources. I propose a ninth: the waste of ...

Lean thinking is a business paradigm for continuous improvement and the relentless elimination of all types of waste. Sustainable development and ‘green thinking’ are widely recognised as the new wave ...