Lean Daily Management for Healthcare Field Book [Paperback]

This book gives healthcare leaders a practical guide to implementing the 4 key components of lean daily management system - 1. LDM boards; 2. Leadership rounds 3. Leader daily disciplines and 4. Lean projects. Although lean is not new to healthcare, effective LDM is just now taking hold with the best lean healthcare organizations in the U.S. and Canada. Leaders are realizing that sustaining their lean projects over time has proven to be a challenge without first addressing the organizations management system/model. LDM gives leaders a straightforward approach to do just that as well as improve their ability to spread and deploy lean to other areas of the organization and tie back to strategy.

Whats Been Missing with Lean Healthcare Transformations?

What is Lean Daily Management?

Lean Daily Management Boards

Leadership Rounds

Leader Daily Discipline

Linking Lean Daily Management to Strategy Deployment (Hoshin planning)

Lean Projects

Integrating LDM and Competing Complimentary Initiatives

Identifying a Lean Sensei and Developing your Lean Team

Lean Change Management

Deploying LDM in your Organization

Templates and Forms

Jerry Berlangais a respected Lean Six Sigma teacher, coach, and author. Jerry currently co-teaches a 1 day University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Lean Daily Management workshop. Jerry founded UTSAs continuous improvement professionals (CIP) group several years ago to bring Lean Six Sigma professionals together to share innovations, best practices and advances in lean six sigma, create mentorships, internships and job opportunities for junior lean coaches and engineers. Jerry invites readers to reach to him at jerry@leanproviders.com to learn more about Lean daily management.

Brock Husby, Ph.D., is a Lean consultantl#Â