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Proven Lean Strategies for Optimal Business Performance

Kainexus

Techniques included in what they called The Toyota Way have been borrowed, adapted, and rearranged into an approach known as Lean manufacturing. Because the framework works for many types of businesses, from healthcare to higher education, it is now often referred to as simply Lean.

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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement Model for Improvement

Kainexus

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Model for Improvement is a straightforward approach that many organizations use to structure their improvement strategies. The method focuses on setting goals and teamwork to achieve change. How will we know that a change results in improvement?

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The 5 Most-Needed Qualities for Leadership in Healthcare

CMOE

The healthcare industry is complex and dynamic. In fact, the opportunity for improvement in healthcare is estimated to be more than $500 billion. Clearly, there are many opportunities for growth, and healthcare leaders are looking for innovative ways to capitalize on this potential. Unique Demands Healthcare Leaders Face.

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When Being Right is the Wrong Strategy for Change

Kainexus

For those of you who aren’t familiar with him, Mark is an internationally-recognized expert in the field of “Lean Healthcare” and the author of LeanBlog.org and author of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award-winning book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement.

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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Making strategy behind closed doors is a prescription for failure when disruptions are coming from all directions. Formulating and executing a sound organizational strategy is complex. Strategy is often made by elite teams and can thus be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces.

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Using Lean Innovation in the Product Development and Commercialization Process

Moves the Needle

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. Most companies have a product development process that is completely separate from their go to market strategy. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle. It does not include product development.

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What the Cannabis Business Needs in Order to Thrive

Business and Tech

Every cannabis company has to have practical, long term strategies to support communities hurt by the war on drugs and low-income patients, because the industry is built on their history. I hope our industry leans into the good we’re doing for society, because that message will resonate and motivate.