Hoshin Kanri for Healthcare : Toyota-Style Long-Term Thinking and Strategy Deployment to Unlock Your Organizations True Potential

The best healthcare organizations have developed effective approaches to develop compelling strategic visions and strategies based on long-term thinking and continue to apply Lean principles across their organizations to create a culture of continuous improvement. Establishing effective strategies and Toyota style Hoshin Kanri enables healthcare organizations to align everyone in the organizations and creates a unique competitive advantage. This book follows a regional hospital's journey through the creation of long-term strategic goals and Toyota Style strategy deployment.

• Describes strategies for setting effective long-term strategy and linking to Hoshin.
• Includes organizational structures to fight bureaucratic inhibitors to agility.
• Demonstrates Hoshin Kanri (Toyota Style Strategy Deployment and Goal Alignment) in a real hospital setting.
• Includes Hoshin Kanri lessons learned from hospital senior leaders.
• Includes Hoshin Kanri templates specifically designed for healthcare.

Preface

Chapter 1 : Long Term Thinking and Healthcare : Keys of Toyota's Success and Eastern vsWestern Thought
Chapter 2 : Laying Out the Challenging and Uncertain Environment of Healthcare
Chapter 3 : Common Struggles
Chapter 4 : High Level Innovation/Strategy Creation
Chapter 5 : Converting Strategy to Top Level Goals
Chapter 6 : Structuring Your Organization for Success
Chapter 7 : Cascading Goals Throughout the Organization to the Front Lines
Chapter 8 : LDM Primer
Chapter 9 : Using VSM and Kaizen Events to Create Strategic "Centers of Excellence" and "Institutes"
Chapter 10 : Partnering with Suppliers and Partners to Create New Models of Careened Successfully Implement Strategy and Vision for ACO/Population Health
Chapter 11 : Goal Tracking and Management
Chapter 12 : Timelines for Hoshin Implementation
Chapter 13 : Hoshin Training for Leaders and Staff
Chapter 14 : HR Performance Management Systems and Hoshin
Chapter 15 : Hoshin Change Management

Index