Lean Leadership for Healthcare

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

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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.

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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

Glossary of Lean Terms
Index