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Lean management and agtech
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Lean management and agtech

Learn how lean thinking can bring better and bigger “harvests” from technology applied to agribusiness – and the risks of not doing so

  • Operational excellence
  • Agribusiness
  • Flávio Battaglia
  • 6 min read
  • 7/4/2024
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The Supply Chain in healthcare: a practical case of applying lean in a public hospital
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The Supply Chain in healthcare: a practical case of applying lean in a public hospital

In this article we describe the application of lean in the supply chain of the country's largest cancer hospital: its particularities, waste and needs in ensuring a continuous chain, with no disruption of patient care, amid the many challenges of public healthcare.

  • Lean management
  • Healthcare
  • Paloma Rubinato Perez
  • 7 min read
  • 4/30/2024
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A Lean Approach to Supply Chain Management: A Practical E2E Case
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A Lean Approach to Supply Chain Management: A Practical E2E Case

  • Operational excellence
  • Logistics and Supply Chain
  • Alvair Silveira Torres Júnior
  • 12 min read
  • 11/24/2023
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“New pandemic” calls for stepping up lean management in healthcare
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“New pandemic” calls for stepping up lean management in healthcare

Why organizations in the sector are facing different but equally complex contexts as in recent years; and how lean management can provide definitive answers for the evolution of care

  • Lean management
  • Healthcare
  • Flávio Battaglia
  • 4 min read
  • 11/13/2023
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“Raise the bar” for yourself
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“Raise the bar” for yourself

Drawing on their experience supporting the stellar growth of Grupo Aramis, the authors discuss the role of leaders in shaping minds and behaviors, constantly challenging themselves to be the best example they can be.

  • Lean culture
  • Leadership
  • Michael Ballé
  • 12 min read
  • 9/20/2023
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Staff shortage is a critical issue in healthcare
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Staff shortage is a critical issue in healthcare

The shortage of healthcare professionals is a worrying issue for leaders in the sector. The relentless effort to fill open positions and provide quality, safe patient care is a recurring topic on organizations' agendas today.

  • Lean management
  • Healthcare
  • Paloma Rubinato Perez
  • 4 min read
  • 7/6/2023
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Investing in “multiskilling” minimizes the impacts of the pandemic — and much more
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Investing in “multiskilling” minimizes the impacts of the pandemic — and much more

For companies that had not been implementing multiskilling, this is the moment; for those already betting on the strategy, it is time to expand it

  • Lean strategy
  • Healthcare
  • Flávio Augusto Picchi
  • 3 min read
  • 2/9/2022
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Big - or small - reflections on management for 2022
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Big - or small - reflections on management for 2022

“Continuous improvement” means everyone in the organization taking a critical look, every day, at all processes, in order to reveal waste, solve problems and add more value for the customer

  • Lean strategy
  • Management
  • Flávio Augusto Picchi
  • 2 min read
  • 12/22/2021
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Lean Healthcare: the impact of reducing time in an oncology patient's journey
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Lean Healthcare: the impact of reducing time in an oncology patient's journey

What we learn from the precious "value of time" in Pedro's journey.

  • Continuous improvement
  • Healthcare
  • Paloma Rubinato Perez
  • 11 min read
  • 8/31/2021
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Lessons on the Toyota Production System applied to suppliers
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Lessons on the Toyota Production System applied to suppliers

The former executive of Toyota's materials plant in Italy reflects on how Sadao Nomura's “Dantotsu” method helped them drastically improve quality.

  • Continuous improvement
  • Industry and Manufacturing
  • Stefano Cortiglioni
  • 10 min read
  • 8/17/2021
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Every second counts
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Every second counts

As Italy carries out its vaccination campaign, the author reflects on what he recently observed at a vaccination site in the Veneto region and discusses how the process can be simplified.

  • Lean strategy
  • Roberto Ronzani
  • 4 min read
  • 5/26/2021
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Observing Covid-19 vaccination at the gemba
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Observing Covid-19 vaccination at the gemba

On his first gemba walk in months, the author observes the Covid-19 vaccination process at a medical practice in Wales and reflects on how lean it is.

  • Lean management
  • Healthcare
  • Dave Brunt
  • 9 min read
  • 3/18/2021
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