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Thinking and Adapting in the Context of Standardized Work

Don’t be afraid to use your brains.

Mark Graban
Tue, 02/16/2010 - 08:15
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When I was in Sweden recently, we had a lot of good discussion about the lean concept of “standardized work.”

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There was much agreement from different presenters at the lean laboratories conference, and from the hospital people we visited, concerning standardized work—that it isn’t a robotic form of cookbook medicine or cookbook processes. Standardized work isn’t “mindless conformity” as Bill Marriott writes about in regard to the hotel chain.

We found an interesting example of a situation where thinking is required.

Let’s say that according to a process for phlebotomy (drawing blood from a patient) it’s preferable to draw blood from the patient’s left arm. Having a standardized process doesn’t mean we always draw from the left arm.

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Submitted by Tripp Babbitt on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 18:34

Standardized work in Healthcare

Truly this shows if we look hard and long enough we can find an example to support our theories. Most healthcare applications do not have this little variety.

Tripp Babbitt
www.newsystemsthinking.com

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