Lean Operations
Our lean healthcare professionals can lead you through workshops that help eliminate non-value-adding activities from your organization’s operations.
Lean healthcare organizations provide exceptional value to clients by engaging all clinician and staff members to strive for continuous improvement, or kaizen, and practicing just-in-time (JIT) production to eliminate non-value-adding activities from their processes.
To become a successful lean organization, our professionals will introduce you to lean operations and the JIT production of products and services adapted from the Toyota Management System. A lean production system effectively improves interactions among people, materials, and machines through elements such as standard work, kanban—a scheduling system, visual display, one-piece flow, and the pull system.
These all work to provide highest-quality products and services that respond to patient and customer needs.
2026 Executive Healthcare Conference
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Workshops and resources
Our professionals coach you on the foundational elements of a lean production system, including:
- 5S + Housewide 5S
- Access Kaizen
- Executive Education
- Kaizen promotion office (KPO) development to support your organization’s improvement work
- Lean Fundamentals
- Study Mission
- Value stream mapping and kaizen workshops