Engineering Commons^™

An Observational Study Of The Methods And Progress In Enterprise Lean Transformation At A Learning Health Care Organization, Christopher Michael Rosenbaum

Theses and Dissertations--Manufacturing Systems Engineering

The health care industry in the United States is increasingly pressured to improve safety and quality performance and increase revenue. In response, many health care institutions are moving to redesign their processes and practices in an effort to decrease costs and provide safer, higher quality, and more efficient care. The purpose of this paper is to document the Lean implementation strategy and progress in implementation at a large teaching health care organization undergoing Lean transformation in order to understand enterprise transformation strategies and the impact of leadership involvement on culture development and Lean implementation. Through direct observations and involvement and …