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1. Mapping Clinical Value Streams

   By Thomas L. Jackson

   Series: Lean Tools for Healthcare Series

   Tens of thousands of patients die unnecessarily every year as a result of errors and defects in our healthcare processes. Those that survive often pay too much for the privilege. The value stream mapping methods described in Mapping Clinical Value Streams will help you achieve more efficient health...

   Published May 19th 2013 by Productivity Press
2. Kaizen Workshops for Lean Healthcare

   Edited by Thomas L. Jackson

   Series: Lean Tools for Healthcare Series

   Part of the Lean Tools for Healthcare series, this user-friendly book will help to improve your understanding of kaizen. It describes exactly what a kaizen event is and details all the phases necessary for implementing continuous improvement practices in your healthcare organization. Kaizen...

   Published August 26th 2012 by Productivity Press
3. Mistake Proofing for Lean Healthcare

   By Thomas L. Jackson

   Series: Lean Tools for Healthcare Series

   Mistake-proofing is an improvement technology that uses a device or procedure, also called a poka-yoke, to prevent defects or errors during a process. Mistake-proofing in healthcare can improve the quality of patient care and services; correct conditions in the process that allow for errors or...

   Published June 14th 2012 by Productivity Press
4. Just-in-Time for Healthcare

   By Thomas L. Jackson

   Series: Lean Tools for Healthcare Series

   Part of the Lean Tools for Healthcare series, this user-friendly book is designed to improve understanding of just-in-time, a system for producing and delivering the right items to the right place at the right time in the right amounts. This text discusses why JIT is important for healthcare by...

   Published June 14th 2012 by Productivity Press
5. Standard Work for Lean Healthcare

   By Thomas L. Jackson

   Series: Lean Tools for Healthcare Series

   Proven to increase efficiencies in the manufacturing sector, Standard Work has become a key element in reducing process waste, ensuring patient safety, and improving healthcare services. Part of the Lean Tools for Healthcare Series, this reader-friendly book builds on the success of the bestselling...

   Published July 7th 2011 by Productivity Press
6. 5S for Healthcare

   By Thomas L. Jackson

   Series: Lean Tools for Healthcare Series

   While there are a growing number of books based on the Toyota Production System, or lean, focused on healthcare, there are very few that detail the tools that make lean more than just a way of thinking and put the methodology into practice. Based on Hiroyuki Hirano's classic 5 Pillars of the...

   Published December 22nd 2009 by Productivity Press
7. Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise

   Developing Competitive Capabilities and Managing Profit

   By Thomas L. Jackson

   Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award!At the heart of Lean and Six Sigma is the same, unique business operating system: hoshin kanri. It is a method of strategic planning and a tool for managing complex projects, a quality operating system geared to ensuring that...

   Published August 20th 2006 by Productivity Press
8. Lean Management Forms

   By Thomas L. Jackson

   Use them to transform your employees' day planners into powerful tools for cross-functional management. (Purchase of the forms includes permission to reproduce or modify then as needed to support implementation.)...

   Published August 31st 1996 by Productivity Press
9. Lean Management Wall Charts

   By Thomas L. Jackson

   Published May 31st 1996 by Productivity Press
10. Implementing a Lean Management System

    By Thomas L. Jackson

    Does your company think and act ahead of technological change, ahead of the customer, and ahead of the competition? Thinking strategically requires a company to face these questions with a clear future image of itself. Implementing a Lean Management System lays out a comprehensive management system...

    Published February 29th 1996 by Productivity Press