Lean Is Not an Acronym

Never assume you’re as good as you can be

Ken Eme

Bio

PIVOT Management Consultants

When I first became involved in lean (continuous improvement), I was the VP of operations at a privately held company in the Midwest. It was 2003, and as a newly promoted senior executive I was eager to find a strategy that could make a real difference in our operations.

I quickly realized that lean might be the key to improving results across the board.

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Speed is the Healing App

Eliminating delays accelerates results and reduces defects, mistakes and errors. In service industries such as healthcare, diagramming a process, identifying unnecessary delays and redesigning the process can be done in a few hours and implemented immediately.

Speed is the healing app.

Healthcare industry could get "healthier" by using lean tools

Agree. Healthcare is an underrepresented segment that could greatly benefit from lean techniques. While application of lean tools can certainly reduce waste, it often can increase the speed of value delivery as well. It doesn't take much effort to get a big benefit. Just choose to make the effort...

LEAN works

I started a lean journey nearly 13 years ago with a LEAN project called follow the Money, and over time has resulted in a revenue increase over 167 million dollars since the starting point (25% growth).