Lean Operations Excellence and LSS Project Design, Building, and Facilitation

The Lean Management System is a key “secret sauce” behind the success of Toyota’s 1 million implemented improvement ideas per year. If you want to be the leader in your market, you must implement a system that allows you to manage two things simultaneously.

Set up your Lean office with the right staff. Then, maintain the correct balance of acquiring Lean Six Sigma-trained industrial engineers and coaches. Most importantly, achieve team versatility to coach leaders and front line staff.

This comprehensive transformative (Kaikaku = radical change) method can lead to significant breakthroughs in productivity that sets the foundation for Kaizen and Daily Idea Improvement efforts. It begins with a Lean Industrial Engineering analysis where the focus is primarily on the 8 wastes in any system.

This approach was first developed by Cancer Treatment Centers of America and was perfected by Dr. Brock Husby, PhD. Moreover, it was extensively championed by Baylor Scott & White Leadership. Now, it is a central part of getting more effective bandwidth from your assigned site Lean coaches.

This novel approach was developed by the Lean OE Leaders at BSWH. It involves a streamlined approach to Line Balancing. Nevertheless, it involves front line staff in all of the key elements. Once the initial workload balancing workshop is completed, the front line team huddles daily to innovate and share the work.

The pressures on 21st century clinics are ever increasing. Luckily, Dave has the experience in improving the “Joy of Practicing Medicine” for health care environments. This proven method not only enables staff to leave on time from the clinic and work at the top of their licenses but also increases the number of patients seen during any given clinic day — all while improving the time spent with the patient.

Future State Process implementation can get mired down, lose focus, and miss key details. Employing a proven VSM approach ensures a future state design is achieved. This reduces the waste desired, lets a champion own the charter, lets a process owner own the implementation action plan, and organizes a team. The innovative use of modern virtual technology ensures that projects stay on track no matter where the team is located.

Project management is crucial to the successful implementation of Lean Project Teams’ ideas. An experienced Project Management Professional approach is essential to on-time delivery of Lean results.

• 5S Implementation and Support
• Lean Principles Training – Basic, Advanced, and Master Level
• Agile Method Setup
• Supply System Analysis and Kanban Supply Point Volumes, Reorder Point Volumes, and Location
• Lean Accounting Systems Integration
• Lean Six Sigma Analytical Services
• LSS Time and Motion Studies
• Lean Simulations (Arena Software) Design and Run
• A3 Structured Problem Solving and Form usage
• Video Standard Work Development
• Pull Systems (including Kanban development)
• Root Cause Analysis (5 Whys, Fishbone Analysis, Etc.)
• FMEA

• Reducing the cost of operations while preserving levels of quality, safety, delivery of care and services, and staff engagement
• Improving quality, safety, delivery of care and services, and staff engagement without increasing costs