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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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Leading in the age of AI
General DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGY

Leading in the age of AI

Between hype and skepticism, understanding the real capabilities of artificial intelligence is essential for leaders who want to apply it consistently and purposefully in their organizations.

By Art Smalley

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From centralizing hero to developer leader
Lean It Up LEADERSHIP

From centralizing hero to developer leader

In a tighter labor market, leaders are needed who can foster employee retention, engagement, productivity and adaptability

By Flávio Battaglia

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The waste the company has learned to sustain
LeanMail MANAGEMENT

The waste the company has learned to sustain

An analysis of why organizations spend managerial energy feeding "invisible, yet visible" failures; and the mindset shift needed to break this cycle

By Flávio Battaglia and Augusto Elias R. da Fonseca

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Learning where and when the work happens
LeanMail LEADERSHIP

Learning where and when the work happens

By handing people development over to HR or third parties, companies separate leaders, team members and their learning from real work. The lean way proposes the opposite: developing individuals at the gemba, every day, based on concrete problems and gaps

By Flávio Battaglia and Robson Gouveia

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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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Talent shortage: industry must learn to develop what it can no longer hire
LeanMail INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING

Talent shortage: industry must learn to develop what it can no longer hire

Why the lack of qualified staff is not just an external problem but reveals management shortcomings, requiring models capable of turning operational routine into a system of learning, maturation and leadership succession

By Flávio Battaglia, Iris Cristina Pierini Bonfanti and Ricardo Itikawa

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