Title: Lean Leadership for Healthcare Author: Ronald G. Bercaw ISBN: 1466515546 / 9781466515543 Format: Soft Cover Pages: 216 Publisher: Productivity Press Year: 2013 Availability: In Stock
Description
Contents
This book explains how to apply Lean improvement to clinical and non-clinical processes. Written by a sensei, it delivers valuable lessons learned over the years of providing improvements in the healthcare industry. The text covers the fundamentals of Lean and explains how to link a strategy of continuous improvement to create operational excellence. It also lays out a roadmap for starting your Lean improvement, discusses the leadership behaviors required for success, and describes how to mitigate the risk of failure when undergoing large-scale change.
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1 : Lean at a Glance Chapter 2 : Creating and Deploying a Lean Strategy Chapter 3 : Leading Change - The Transformation Roadmap - Phase 1 : "Get Ready" Chapter 4 : The Transformation Roadmap - Phase 2 : The Acceleration Phase (Improve, Sustain, and Spread) Chapter 5 : The Transformation Roadmap - Phase 3 : Make Organizational Improvement the "New" Culture Chapter 6 : Leadership Behaviors and Actions for Success Chapter 7 : Mitigating Transformation Risk and Avoiding Common Mistakes Chapter 8 : Closing Thoughts