the aim of this paper is to determine the use of lean management components in the libraries of medical sciences universities in the north provinces of iran. the methodology is a cross-sectional survey in which the viewpoints of 105 managers and employees in different units of libraries of medical sciences universities are evaluated in mazandaran, golestan, and gilan to determine the applicatio...

BACKGROUND Incidents and quality problems are a prime cause why health care leaders are calling to redesign health care delivery. One of the concepts used is lean thinking. Yet, lean often leads to resistance. Also, there is a lack of high quality evidence supporting lean premises. In this paper, we present an overview of lean thinking and its application to health care. DEVELOPMENT, THEORY A...

Purpose – There is no argument that using games (gamification) is an efficient way of learning in higher education. The questions, though, are which gamification approach is most suitable at that level and how to assess its suitability? This paper aims to attempt to partially answer these two questions, in the context of lean thinking education. Design/methodology/approach – The paper offers an...

To gain the full benefit from this new business strategy, it must be fully embraced by top management. It is also important to understand that this concept may be more accurately described as lean thinking instead of lean production. Using the “lean thinking” terminology ensures that the concept is viewed as a total business model, including product development, design and sales. Lean thinking ...

Lean Thinking is current ly of t en posit ioned as t he underlying t heory of lean product ion among pract it ioners and academics, al t hough it s originat ors, Womack and Jones, seem not t o have present ed it as a t heory. This paper endeavours t o analyze whet her Lean Thinking can be viewed as a t heory of lean product ion. For t his purpose, a crit ical assessment of Lean Thinking is carr...

In the new business economy, project management has become a central way for undertaking several of the business activities. One of the increasing and most significant concerns with projects is that, projects are behind schedule, over budget and show unsatisfactory performance in terms quality and customer satisfaction. In the last few decades the manufacturing industry successfully improved qu...

A lean manufacturer operating in the automotive sector is currently participating in research that aims to measure performance of the maintenance function. The results described in this paper indicate that the company, already employing lean manufacturing practices, can improve its maintenance activities further by applying lean thinking. By adopting a performance measurement approach to identi...

This paper explores the relationship between simulation and the emerging topics of Lean Thinking and lean construction. The ideas which have motivated the evolution of lean construction concepts are presented. The use of simulation as a means of evaluating the benefit of using lean construction techniques is discussed. Two examples of lean thinking based re-design of common construction process...

Lean thinking is a method for organising complex production processes so as to encourage flow and reduce waste. While the principles of lean thinking were developed in the manufacturing sector, there is increasing interest in its application in health care. This case history documents the introduction and development of Redesigning Care, a lean thinking-based program to redesign care processes ...