The missing link: Lean leadership.

Key Factors Influencing Lean Thinking Implementation in Health Services (A Study of Isfahan Health Centers)

Introduction: Health centers around the world are facing significant pressures to increase productivity. Therefore, in order to improve the quality of services and to create competitive advantages in these centers, we need to implement lean principles. The purpose of this study was to identify and prioritize the key factors affecting the implementation of lean thinking in the field of health se...

Leadership requirements for Lean versus servant leadership in health care: a systematic review of the literature

As health care organizations face pressures to improve quality and efficiency while reducing costs, leaders are adopting management techniques and tools used in manufacturing and other industries, especially Lean. Successful Lean leaders appear to use a coaching leadership style that shares underlying principles with servant leadership. There is little information about specific similarities an...

A fuzzy model for achieving lean attributes for competitive advantages development using AHP-QFD-PROMETHEE

Lean production has become an integral part of the manufacturing landscape as its link with superior performance and its ability to provide competitive advantage is well accepted among academics and practitioners. Lean production helps producers in overcoming the challenges organizations face through using powerful tools and enablers. However, most companies are faced with restricted resources ...

Lean Leadership fundamental principles and their application

But still, few enterprises succeed in maintaining a sustainable continuous improvement process (CIP). In many LPS, solely methods and tools are in focus of the implementation. But they merely represent the superficial elements of LPS. The actual key success factor is the involvement of employees in daily improvement. This can be achieved through a different way of leadership, the lean leadershi...

Psychological Therapies: The Missing Link in Improving Treatment Adherence in Patients with β-thalassemia Major