 What is Your Action Plan for Transformation?
It's one of the questions we get asked most frequently at the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value: How can I get started? What should my organization do?
This month, we are providing a chapter from our award-winning book, On the Mend, by John Toussaint, MD, to help you start or review your own lean action plan. The chapter outlines the following nine action steps in detail to keep leaders engaged and walking along the path to transformation.
1. Identify the crisis.
2. Create a lean promotion office.
3. Find change agents.
4. Map your value streams.
5. Engage senior leaders early in strategy deployment.
6. Acquire and disperse knowledge broadly.
7. Teach a man to fish (or, become a mentor).
8. Involve suppliers in lean.
9. Restructure your organization into product families.
Take your action plan to the next level by downloading the full chapter here. |
Upcoming Educational Offerings
The Science of Problem Solving for Physicians
Dec. 5, 2013
NOW WITH CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
Visit the clinic floor to observe how Palo Alto Medical Foundation physicians have applied lean principles to deliver higher patient value. For more information, click here.
Lean Fundamentals for Healthcare Leaders
Oct. 3-4, 2013
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Enhance the power of your lean journey by ensuring your organization's leaders have the knowledge and skills to lead improvement work and coach and teach their staff daily. For more information, click here.
Shingo Prize: Principles of Operational Excellence & Assessment, Jacksonville, FL
Sept. 18-19, 2013
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Learn to create systems that drive the behaviors needed for a culture that continuously pursues enhanced customer value. Register three employees and save 15% by using code SNG15.
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News Briefs
Members Making a Difference
This month's featured Healthcare Value Network member is MemorialCare Health System, based out of Fountain Valley (Orange County), CA. MemorialCare has been learning and applying lean concepts for about eight years. The video below shares its impressive work and results.
 | | Transforming Health Care at MemorialCare |
Interested in joining the Healthcare Value Network? Contact Helen Zak at hzak@createvalue.org for more information.
Have You Enrolled In CBIN Yet?
The Clinical Business Intelligence Network (CBIN) is open for enrollment. This peer-to-peer learning network brings healthcare systems together to learn, share and connect on people, processes and technology issues that are the lifeblood of successful and sustainable Performance Excellence programs. Are you one of them? Contact Julie Bartels at jbartels@createvalue.org or (920) 309-2216. |
