Applying Lean Methods to Healthcare Design

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Applying Lean Production in Healthcare Facilities

Escalating healthcare costs and a sense of urgency to decrease medical errors and improve quality have increased efforts to improve efficiency in the delivery of healthcare services. One strategy to address these problems began many years ago in an unlikely place. The Toyota Production System (also known as Lean Production), originally inspired by Henry Ford’s assembly line approach to manufact...

Reducing Errors by RFID Technology to Achieve Lean Healthcare

Reducing wastes in the healthcare processes is crucial for developing a high performance health system. Adopted from the Toyota Production System (TPS), the Lean concept has emerged in recent years as a way of introducing innovative ideas to improve industrial processes. In the context of health care, Lean is considered as a continuous improvement model, which provides healthcare organization t...

Applying Lean Principles to the Crowdsourcing Process

The paper is a research-in-progress that focuses on examining the applicability of lean principles to the crowdsourcing process. While crowdsourcing is seen as an excellent exemplar of open innovation, there is no research that has focused on the wasteful, time-consuming or bloated nature of many crowdsourcing initiatives. This paper attempts to address this gap and examine the applicability of...

Applying Lean Principles to Production Scheduling

When exploring the Lean issue, literature appears to have countless definitions to describe that individual topic, causing misinterpretations between academics and professionals alike. The mainstream Lean implementation ventures are merely a compilation of tools and methods that are forced down the organisational hierarchy from higher tiers, due to other organisations publicising lean in improv...