INTEGRATING PEOPLE‚ PROCESS‚ AND TECHNOLOGY IN LEAN HEALTHCARE by Brock C. Husby A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Industrial and Operations Engineering) in The University of Michigan 2012 Doctoral Committee: Professor Jeffrey K. Liker‚ Chair Professor Lawrence Martin Seiford Professor Richard Van Harrison Associate Professor Young Kyun Ro
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1. *How does Shouldice compete? Identify at least three characteristics of Shouldice’s operations that contribute* to its competitiveness. Shouldice Hospital Limited seems to be a well organized Hospital with a unique technique to operate hernias. In this hospital only external hernias were operated. This is the mayor fact for their success. The doctor´s‚ the nurse´s and even the design of the facility is only targeted of the patient’s needs that have or had a hernia surgery. To reduce
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Case Study 1: Shouldice Hospital Limited 1. What has the leadership of Shouldice been excellent at? Shouldice leadership has been able to develop one of its surgical service lines‚ inguinal hernia repair‚ to an “internationally-recognized” brand. This has allowed Shouldice to dominate the market share and create a demand for its specialized services resulting in financial stability. The creation of this brand also has a strong influence with how the organization functions and how it is perceived
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LEAN ACCOUNTING: BEST PRACTICES FOR SUSTAINABLE INTEGRATION "Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.” – Taiichi Ohno‚ father of the Toyota Production System Lean Accounting-It is simply the application of lean principles to the accounting and associated functions within the enterprise. The idea is simple‚ but the application is not obvious within the framework of traditional accounting systems. Lean Accounting was born in the early 90’s through the experiences
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nurse know exactly what to do. Another part of lean initiative was a top-down review of day-to-day administrative procedures‚ and identifying common problems‚ bottlenecks in another areas. No one had to work more hours. UNC Health Care launched a lean pilot program that is increasing efficiency and enabling the hospital to serve more patients. No new hires were needed. UNC health care did more with less! This tool work so well because a hospital with 800 beds that cuts average length by just
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Problem-solving and critical thinking are vital for law enforcement employees. One must think critically while performing their duties as a police officer on the streets‚ a probation officer in the community‚ or as a prosecutor in a court of law. Prosecutors and defense attorneys must use their discretion in cases that are brought before them. They must decide the right avenue to go with these cases. They can either give a plea bargain or go to trial. They must decide which one will serve the person
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Abstract Hospital operating rooms are experiencing higher costs and less available capacity‚ yet they typically generate the highest returns of all hospital departments. In the case study described in this paper‚ a process improvement team in a hospital Operating Room Department at aimed to address these issues by decreasing the turnaround time between surgical cases and increasing the percentage of first cases of the day beginning at their scheduled time. These two performance metrics were targeted
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THE LEAN HR/LEAN OD PARADIGM Definitions: Lean HR‚ Lean OD is about driving waste and duplication out of all HR and OD practices‚ processes and procedures – It is not a set of tools; it’s a paradigm rather then one single theory. A workplace culture; defined simplistically as how we do it around here and it will ultimately determine how far an organisation can go. A workplace culture can be formed in one of two ways. One is by piecemeal that is‚ bit by bit and usually in response to
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LEAN IN PRODUCTION AND SERVICE The word term ‘’LEAN’’ was put together to describe and personalize Toyota’s business activity during the 1980’s by a research team headed by one Jim Womack‚ Ph.D.‚ at MIT’s international Motor vehicle programme. According to them‚ the concept of ‘LEAN’ was fathered by Taiichi Ohno of Toyota. Ohno developed a contrasting approach to the mass production methods of US car firms through necessity. Later‚ in 1996‚ Jim Womack’s team espoused the five lean principles
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Tasks and answers Task 1: To what extent could or should Deane expect to apply the philosophies and techniques of JIT/Lean to the running of a staircase cell? Staircases Production Company (SPC) is a small‚ successful‚ privately owned timber and building materials company based in a small city in the UK. The company offers a wide variety of timber products‚ from regular doors‚ windows and staircases to special products such as non-standard sections or special profiles (i.e. old designs of skirting
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