Applying Lean methods
Our team will guide your organization through the five levels of the Lean journey using the following methods.
Level 1: The foundation
- Train Lean leaders
- Attend study missions
- Plan your Lean journey
- Understand your value streams
- Recognize that success relies on building the systems around the patient
- Deploy strategy
Level 2: Stability
- Establish flow and initiate clinical standard work
- Meet quality and service standards
- Initiate daily management for success metrics, readiness for each shift and problem solving
- Link service-line and unit improvements to strategy
Level 3: Match capacity to demand
- Level the schedule and the work of the day
- Control workflow
- Begin to operate to takt (cadence) and dramatically improve patient flow and lead times
- Set staffing to demand
Level 4: A takt environment
- Set standard work with detailed cycle times, successive quality checks and triggers for process-stop
- Refine clinical standard work
- Implement advanced daily management
Level 5: Optimize
- Refine the problem-solving skills of all employees