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What queues reveal about healthcare management
LEANMAIL HEALTHCARE

What queues reveal about healthcare management

By integrating the stages of care, better organizing resources and removing interruptions that prolong the patient journey, lean management helps reduce waits, relieve team overload and deliver care with more safety, agility and respect

Flávio Battaglia and Paloma Rubinato Perez

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No problem is problem: why AI needs to stop flattering
Lean It Up MANAGEMENT

No problem is problem: why AI needs to stop flattering

In a corporate world that increasingly demands agility, resilience and the elimination of waste, algorithmic flattery is dangerous noise

By Flávio Battaglia

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How much return is an organization really able to extract from the resources it already has?
Lean It Up MANAGEMENT

How much return is an organization really able to extract from the resources it already has?

Every investment decision is, in essence, a decision about return

By Flávio Battaglia

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Productivity theater: why being busy is not the same as delivering value
Lean It Up MANAGEMENT

Productivity theater: why being busy is not the same as delivering value

There is a silent waste growing within organizations that does not present itself as a process failure, delivery delay or cost increase. It appears as activity, even when that activity is not relevant to the company

By Flávio Battaglia

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The new bounded rationality: why more AI does not mean better management
Lean It Up MANAGEMENT

The new bounded rationality: why more AI does not mean better management

When applied to poorly designed processes, AI does not eliminate waste; it merely perpetuates and accelerates it. When layered over confusing flows, contradictory goals or purely bureaucratic routines, technology tends to make the problem more sophisticated rather than solve it

By Flávio Battaglia

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Knowing how to ask has never been so important
Lean It Up LEADERSHIP

Knowing how to ask has never been so important

Systems capable of producing explanations, analyses and suggestions are becoming part of everyday knowledge work. In this interaction, however, the quality of the answers depends directly on the questions that guide them

By Flávio Battaglia

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Industrializing AI for Software Development: a roadmap applicable to every sector
General SERVICES

Industrializing AI for Software Development: a roadmap applicable to every sector

How is a 700-person technology company achieving 3 times the speed on modernization projects? By incorporating a century of lean manufacturing wisdom to industrialize AI-driven development — and by demonstrating a new sociotechnical path for organizations in every sector.

By Lean Institute Brasil

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