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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Tag: Visual Management
Managing Visually
Learning to See is the starting point for Learning to Act. By making the facts of any situation clearly visible it is much easier to build agreement on what needs to be done, to create the commitment...
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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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The Waste of management
Just imagine that instead of pursuing several hundred projects your organisation was able to focus everyone’s’ efforts on the vital three to five strategic objectives that would make the biggest...
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New Horizons for Lean Thinking
I often tell audiences that I collect questions, particularly ones I have to go away and think about. I also tell them I judge the quality of the audience by the quality of the questions they ask!...
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