Around the world healthcare organisations are being challenged to do more with less resources. In the UK the NHS is trying to find £20 billion in efficiency savings. Can this be done without...
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Transformation
How to Judge the Success of Lean?
Lean is a journey and to my mind the best way of judging success is by how much people have learnt so far and how ready they are to take the next leg of the journey. I often meet people who tell me...
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LEA Door to Door Club member wins HSJ Best Acute Healthcare Organisation of the Year
After much deliberation the Judges chose Calderdale and Huddersfield describing them as “an extremely impressive and rounded organisation where care has been improved by focusing not just on safety...
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What Makes Lean Work?
Toyota’s lasting contribution to the practice of management is that it created a unique synthesis of three fundamental approaches to improvement — the analysis of quality and the use of the...
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Three Shingo Awards for LEA
The Lean Enterprise Academy has just won three Shingo Awards in recognition of its pioneering work in implementing lean thinking. At the Shingo Prize Awards Conference in Salt Lake City, USA on 20...
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