What the Book "Lean Thinking" Said About Healthcare...
Jan 15, 2018•5 min
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What the Book "Lean Thinking" Said About Healthcare in 1996
http://www.leanblog.org/audio244
When the book Lean Thinking (by Jim Womack and Dan Jones) was originally published in 1996, it seems likely that hardly anyone was applying Lean principles in healthcare. Sure, you had organizations applying TQM or CQI principles (or even some of the lessons of Dr. W. Edwards Deming). Joan Wellman did some of her first Lean healthcare experiments in 1995, but there weren't any "Lean healthcare" case studies yet. What does their book say?
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