Kanban for Lean Healthcare
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (873 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1466551925 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In 2008, Tom decided to trade his Levi Dockers for a pair of black scrubs and joined Mike Rona, former President of Seattle’s Virginia Mason Medical Center, as a partner in the Rona Consulting Group, where he and Mike are "transforming healthcare and pursuing perfection." In 2007, Tom was awarded a Shingo Prize for his book,
As part of the Lean Tools in Healthcare series, this reader-friendly book is designed to improve understanding of this tool. Kanban is a Lean method that builds upon the concepts of standardized work, 5S, and visual management to give hospitals a simple yet effective method for managing supplies and inventory. The goal of a kanban system is to support patients and employees by ensuring needed supplies are in the right place, at the right time. Presented in practical terms, this book includes margin assists that define key terms, supplies healthcare examples, and provides detailed how-to instructions.
Looking at pictures of Japanese factories and reading about how differently the Japanese count their money, Tom became so fanatical about Lean that he left his comfortable position as a professor of business at the University of Vermont to start his own Lean consulting company – in Malaysia! There he learned that the powerful techniques of Lean enterprise – JIT, SMED, TPM, kanban, etc. Tom has been a student of Lean enterprise since 1988, when he copyedited Hiroyuki Hirano’s JIT Factory Revolutionfor Productivity Press and reworked two chapters of Yasuhiro Monden’s groundbreaking Japanese Management Accou