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What color is it?
A team from a Scottish university has developed a visual control for body fluids that is solving a complex problem in healthcare.
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An ICU “of Love”... and of Lean!
How lean system concepts and practices are tackling and reversing increases in hospital infections, staff absences and transfers, and other adversities in the intensive care units of Hospital de Amor (HA) , in Barretos (SP)
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A lean perspective on the impacts of tax reform on logistics and supply chain
Learn how lean management can connect business needs to the economic rationale emerging from the new tax logic, guiding the redesign of flows, the review of work methods and coordination between areas that need to act in an integrated way in this new context
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Agribusiness: a global paradox
Lean thinking is redefining agriculture by turning farms into continuous learning systems, boosting productivity, reducing waste and empowering people through daily problem solving.
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Beyond training: truly effective lean logistics capability building
Aligning processes with organizational purpose and creating teams engaged in executing strategy
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Lean Learnings in China
Reflections on the metals chain that reveal connected practices on a national scale
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Productivity challenges in healthcare management
Understand the structural forces that challenge productivity, quality and safety in healthcare; and why lean management offers a solid path toward a sustainable, high-performance system
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Trust creates the space where learning happens
Excessive supervision, which once ensured consistency, now breeds apathy. Distrust has become part of the routine, disguised in processes and indicators. Rebuilding trust is companies' new strategic challenge
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Hoshin deployment
A recent gemba walk at a Toyota plant reveals how the company operationalizes its hoshin plan — in this case, to win the auto industry's transition to Mobility 2.0, what Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda calls “a cyclical disruption that occurs once every century.”
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Foundations for smart standards
Standardization is the foundation for consolidating productivity as a real competitive differentiator. Without it, there is no stability in performance and no foundation for continuous improvement. Discover how to overcome challenges and achieve more sustainable results
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Building a learning hospital
NOTES FROM THE GEMBA – At GHU Paris (Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris), leadership combines strategy with gemba visits, problem solving using the 5C method and cross-functional learning to create a resilient, people-centered improvement culture in psychiatric care.
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