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Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management

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ISBN-10: 0071761624

ISBN-13: 9780071761628

Edition: 2012

Authors: Bahadir Inozu, Dan Chauncey, Vickie Kamataris, Charles Mount, LLC NOVACES

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Tested techniques for applying improvement methods to the healthcare field Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Managementoffers the "best of breed" integration of the latest advances in performance improvement approaches in terms of patient experience, financial viability, and employee satisfaction. While the goal is to improve performance across all aspects of the organization, the path is through identifying processes that are not meeting expectationsand fixing them. Unlike "one size fits all" approaches, such as Lean only or Six Sigma only, the approach in this book integrates three main methodologies Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma, and…    
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List price: $118.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (Australia) Pty Limited
Publication date: 8/24/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.30" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Bahadir Inozu, Ph.D., is a Founding Partner and the Chief Executive Officer of NOVACES, LLC, a leading provider of continuous process improvement consulting and training services. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and a Theory of Constraints Jonah. Dr. Inozu has been teaching undergraduate, graduate, and adult education courses on Process Improvement, Lean, Six Sigma, Reliability and Maintenance Management, Marine Engineering, and Executive Leader Training courses on CPI for over 20 years.Dan Chauncey is the Director of Deployment Services for NOVACES where he has served as the technical program manager for the deployment of CPI across patient care in the U.S. Navy Medical…    

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Performance Improvement in Healthcare
These Are the Best of Times, These Are the Worst of Times
What Is the Answer?
It's All About ... the Patient ... the Money-Why Not Both?
The History of Performance Improvement in Healthcare
Complementary (Core) Methodologies
Three Windows: Constraints Management, Lean, and Six Sigma
Conclusion
Constraints Management Applications in Healthcare
The Evolution of Constraints Management
Early Applications
Constraints Management Terminology for Healthcare
Systems Thinking
The Goal
Throughput
Constraints
The Five Focusing Steps
Applications of Constraints Management
Thinking Processes
Buffer Management and Supply-Chain Logistics
Critical Chain Project Management
Finance and Measures
Conclusion
An Integrated Approach to Deploying Performance Improvement
Who Leads the Performance-Improvement Deployment?
Performance-Improvement Program Management Office
Prioritization
Deployment Team
What Does a Mature Hospital Performance-Improvement Deployment Look Like?
Governance
Staffing
Finance
Visibility
Nondelegable Responsibilities of Leadership
Burning Platform
Transactional versus Transformational Leadership
Leadership Coaching
Managing Upward
What Is a Robust Deployment Approach?
Four-Phase Integrated Performance-Improvement Approach
Assess
Plan
Apply
Sustain
Conclusion
Assessment
Strategic Gap Analysis
Performance-Improvement Maturity Assessment
Change-Readiness Assessment
Organizational Performance Review
System-Level Value-Stream Analysis
Initiating the System VSA
System VSA Outputs
System Constraint Analysis
Intermediate Objectives (IO) Map
Focused Current Reality Tree (fCRT)
Identify System Constraint
Conclusion
Planning for Deployment
Why Plan?
Timeline
Deployment Metrics
Governance
Who Are Performance-Improvement Practitioners?
Lean
Six Sigma
Constraints Management
Advanced Practitioners
What Do Advanced Practitioners Do?
Where Do Advanced Practitioners Come From?
Practitioner Selection
Practitioner Development
Mentoring: An Art and a Science
Mentoring Drives Results
Practitioner Utilization
Deployment Communications
Communication Plan
Communications Planning Summary
Project Selection
Project Sources
Constraints
Strategic Imperatives Identified by Leadership
Project Prioritization
First Projects
Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) for Performance-Improvement Project Portfolios
Conclusion
Application of the Right Tool to the Right Problem
Project Chartering and Execution
Project Chartering
Improvement Approach Selection
Process-Level Value Stream Analysis
Pre-event
Event
Post-event
Quick Hits
Rapid Improvement Workshops
Pre-event
Event
Post-event
Six Sigma Project
Apply the DMAIC Methodology
Reporting, Project Review, and Approval Process
Reporting
Project Reviews
Approval Process
Balanced Scorecard
Generating Innovative Solutions
Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ)
Conclusion
Sustainment
Organic Capability
Program Oversight
Succession Planning
Mentoring Revisited
Training
Integrated Change Management
Barriers to Change
Success Factors
Change-Management Tools and Methods
Benefits and Return-on-Investment (ROI) Validation
Deployment Planning for ROI
Role of the CFO
Common Failure Modes
Replication
Taking Performance Improvement to the Next Level
Introducing Constraints Management into Lean and Six Sigma Cultures
How To Retool Performance-Improvement Programs
Conclusion
Appendix: Reliability and Validity of Assessment Measures
Performance-Improvement Maturity Assessment
Change-Readiness Assessment
Event Charter
References
Index