3P
The 3P strategy can help radically redesign your organization’s processes, products, and facilities to better meet healthcare marketplace demands.
Lean healthcare leaders use kaizen, or continuous incremental improvement, to address process problems and transform their organizations. When significant problems can’t be overcome with kaizen alone, the additional lean approach of 3P—production, preparation, process—can help radically redesign processes, products, and facilities to better meet the demands of the healthcare marketplace.
Based on the Japanese concept of kaikaku, or revolutionary change over a short period, 3P can be used to generate quantum leaps in an existing process or to design entirely new processes. It can also be used to help the implementation of new facilities, information systems, and staff workflows. 3P aims to enhance flow while simultaneously improving quality, affordability, and time to market for new products and services.
How 3P works
Guiding you through a 3P event, our professionals help your teams with the design or implementation of the following:
- New service offerings or a combination of services previously operated independently
- New processes to accommodate changes in demand or equipment
- New facility design, major projects, or making the most of a small re-model budget
- New processes to accommodate a new facility layout that have already been determined
