The Power of Ideas to Transform Healthcare : Engaging Staff by Building Daily Lean Management Systems

Many companies conduct Lean training and projects, but few have tapped the wealth of ideas in the minds of their staff like Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH). This book documents the path Steve Hoeft and Robert Pryor created at BSWH and shares what worked as well as what didn't-illustrating over seven years of successes and failures in detail.Providing easy-to-follow guidance for deploying Lean and TPS in healthcare, The Power of Ideas to Transform Healthcare focuses on what needs to be done and who needs to do it. It explains that the new ""currency"" for 2015 and beyond will be ideas-ideas.
Abstract: Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Why Lean? Why Now?; Chapter 3: Philosophy; Chapter 4: How S&W Did It-Applying TPS to Healthcare; Chapter 5: The Huddle System (LMS)-In Detail; Chapter 6: Tips and Techniques; Appendix A: Forms; Appendix B: Acronyms and Some Terms; About the Author; Back Cover.

Many companies conduct Lean training and projects, but few have tapped the wealth of ideas in the minds of their staff like Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH). This book documents the path Steve Hoeft and Robert Pryor created at BSWH and shares what worked as well as what didn't-illustrating over seven years of successes and failures in detail.Providing easy-to-follow guidance for deploying Lean and TPS in healthcare, The Power of Ideas to Transform Healthcare focuses on what needs to be done and who needs to do it. It explains that the new ""currency"" for 2015 and beyond will be ideas-ideas