An Intro to Lean
@MarkGraban
www.MarkGraban.com/frisco
© 2016, Constancy, Inc., All Rights Reserved
“Lean Production”
Lean ________
•  Lean Enterprise
•  Lean Product Development
•  Lean Accounting
•  Lean Law
•  Lean Startups
•  Lean Retail
•  Lean Healthcare
•  Lean Government
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WHAT IS
LEAN?
WHY
LEAN?
Start from need.
What problem are
we trying to solve?
Why Lean for Healthcare?
No waiting
No waste
Zero harm
Source: an NHS hospital, UK
Frisco Library Circulation
Before After
Grand Rapids (MI) Fire Dept.
Time to Inspect a Building (Hours)
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
Before After
“Reduction in fuel and depreciation for city vehicles because of
fewer trips that inspectors have to make to a single building.”
Grand Rapids
•  “Inspectors used to do an
inspection and then come
back to the office to type it up
and mail the first violation
letter requiring correction
within 30 days.
•  Now, they issue the first
violation notice on site at the
end of the inspection, cutting
days out of the overall lead
time.”
Grand Rapids
•  Laura Knapp, deputy fire chief for Grand Rapids:
– “For me, the whole lean thing just makes a lot
of sense. It’s something that I think a lot of
people do all of the time, but they don’t do it in
a formal way,”
– “You look at one piece of the whole
process and see what you could
do differently, but you never
sit down and look at the
whole thing.”
“True North”Objectives
15Source: ThedaCare
Source: Dr. Richard Shannon
ThedaCare “Door to Balloon” Time
91
65
52
37 37 45
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Improving Radiology
/MRI Access Time
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
WeeksWaitingTime
Outpatient Radiology Backlog
ThedaCare Coronary Bypass
Improvement
12
1
Toyota “Meals Per Hour”
Food Bank for New York City
Wait time for meals (minutes)
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Before After
Food Bank for New York City
Food box packing time
0:00
0:28
0:57
1:26
1:55
2:24
2:52
3:21
Before After
WHAT IS
LEAN?
“Equally Important Pillars”
Lean is a set of concepts,
principles and tools (thinking)
used to create and deliver the
most value from the
customer’s perspective
while consuming the fewest
resources , and by engaging
people in continuous
problem solving.
Text and image © Lean Enterprise Institute, used with permission
5S
Value Stream Maps
Standardized Work
Kanban
Visual Management
A3s
Management System
Philosophy
Culture
Thinking
Mindsets
Right Tool, Wrong Culture?
Right Tool, Wrong Culture?
Helpful 5S
“If people are upset, it’s not TPS”
What is TPS?
What is TPS?
•  Customer first
–  Provide customers with what they want, when they
want it, and in the amount they want it
•  People are the most valuable resource
–  Deeply respect, engage, and develop people
•  Continuous improvement (kaizen)
–  Engage everyone each and every day
•  Shop floor (gemba) focus
–  Go to where the work is done to find & solve problems
1. Value
2. Value Stream
3. Flow
4. Pull
5. Perfection
Lean Thinking
What is Value?
•  Will the customer pay for the activity?
•  Does the activity move the process forward?
•  Was the activity done right the first time?
Value = 1 – Waste
What is Waste?
•  Type 1: Is required in today’s process and
system and cannot be eliminated. Facilitates
value-adding work for the patient.
•  Type 2: Can be eliminated immediately without ill
effect.
Value = 1 – Waste
The 8 Types of Waste
Type of Waste Example
Defects Wrong prescription written for patient
Overproduction Too many patients told to arrive at once
Transportation Patient walking football fields between
oncology clinic and chemotherapy
Waiting Patients waiting for a late appointment
Employees waiting on work to do
Inventory Expired medications and supplies
Motion RNs searching for the thermometer
Processing Filling out the same form every time
Human Potential Time spent on wasteful activities
Toyota’s Chairman
Mr. Cho
•  Go See
–  “Senior Management must
spend time on the front lines.”
•  Ask Why
–  “Use the “Why?” technique daily.”
•  Show Respect
–  “Respect your people.”
Three Keys to Lean Leadership
Learning to See Waste
Reducing Podiatrist Walking
•  Created standardized cart
•  Along with standardized rooms,
eliminated the need to leave the
room during patient encounters
Restocking Checklist
“Toast” - Exercise
Kaizen Card / Idea Card
•  Standardized Card in Use
–  Prompts staff through the problem solving process
Kaizen
Kai = Change
Zen = Good
“everybody
improving,
everywhere,
and every day”
People Hate Change?
“People don’t
resist change,
they resist
being changed.”
–  Peter Scholtes (1938-2009)
Not a Suggestion Box!
Six
Sigma
Projects
Large
Kaizen
Medium
Kaizen
Small
Kaizen
Lean
Events
Bubble size is meant to roughly represent relative size of effort
Complexity
Daily Kaizen
Woman’s
& Children’s
3P
EMR
Implementation
New Indy
Bed Tower
COG
Group
Best
Practices
PACE
PDCA / PDSA
Kaizen Events (RIE, RPIW)
•  “Kaizen Blitz”
–  A rapid improvement effort designed to fix a specific problem of
limited scope
–  Brought to the U.S. by Shingujitsu Consulting
–  a.k.a. Rapid Improvement Event,
–  Rapid Process Improvement Workshop
•  “Kaikaku”
–  Dramatic revolutionary change
–  “Radical Kaizen”
Kaizen Event Steps
54
Monday
Preparation & info
gathering
•  Teach relevant
lean concepts
•  Set ground rules
and expectations
•  Gemba walk to
gather data
Tuesday
Data assessment
•  Use gemba
data to identify
improvement
opportunities
•  Scope the
project
•  Brainstorm
improvement
ideas
•  Plan for time
and resources if
needed
Wednesday
Implementation
•  Experiment
with solutions
•  Follow the
PDCA cycle
•  Bias for action,
not analysis
Thursday
Standardization
•  Select ideas
that worked
best
•  Establish
standards
•  Results and
metrics
Friday
Presentation
•  Experiment
with solutions
•  Follow the
PDCA cycle
•  Bias for action,
not analysis
Audit
and
Follow-
up
Franciscan St. Francis Health
Franciscan St. Francis Health
•  27,000 improvements since 2007
•  33 to 40% staff participation each year
•  >$6 million in hard cost savings
•  Better patient & staff safety, quality,
patient satisfaction, waiting times
“The culture here is staff input into everything.
They want staff figuring out how to fix things.
What can we do to make our job easier?
They allow us to implement things to see if it will work.”
See videos at www.leanblog.org/franciscanvideos
Find
Discuss
Implement
(Test)
Document
Share
The Kaizen Process
ASK!
What
bugs
you?
What
can
we
fix?
Nursing Unit Kaizen
Visual Kaizen Board
Nursing Unit Kaizen
“Treat
each idea
as a gift”
•  Norman Bodek
“From Judge to Coach”
Find Something to Implement
90% Something
Implemented
Nothing Implemented
Find
Discuss
Implement
(Test)
Document
Share
The Kaizen Process
Franciscan’s
First Kaizen
Seeing Katie’s Outbox
Before After
It was hard for Dee to see Katie’s outbox because
other items were in the way
Swapped outbox to right side and moved it over on the desk.
Effect
Outbox is visible from the door, which makes it easier for Dee to take a peek when she walks by. Documents and mail don’t
get delayed when they are ready to go out. Less disturbance to Katie since Dee doesn’t have to ask if something is in the
outbox.
Name ID # Dept # Supervisor Date
Dee Long, Katie Hanners BV20120502-1 Business
Ventures
Katie 5/2/2012
Title: WORN Hangtag attachment method
Before After
Effect
Old method for attaching hangtag was very tedious and time consuming (measure string from spool, cut it, thread through
hangtag, manually tie around care label). The improved method is based on a pre-cut string that has a plastic locking clasp.
The string needs to be looped through the hangtag and then simply locked around the care label. Reduces the packaging
time by approximately 1-2 minutes per scarf.
Name ID # Dept # Supervisor Date
Susan Vinson WORN2012
.5.16.12
WORN Katie Hanners 5/16/12
www.HCKaizen.com
Kaizen “Wall of Fame”
WHAT
IS LEAN?
QPIC’s Lean Government
General Principles:
1. One stop shopping whenever and wherever possible –
the customer only has to see one person to complete
their business.
2. Right the first time – identify and eliminate all sources of
errors and rework – this is huge.
3. Reduce waste for the customer:
a. Easy forms
b. Easy websites to navigate
c. What info do they need and how easy is it to get it?
d. High use of Checklists
Courtesy, QPIC & Harry Kenworthy: http://www.leangovcenter.com/
QPIC’s Lean Government
General Principles:
4. Really “Learn to See” the wastes in all processes by
going to the actual work area
5. Focus on areas with high leverage and set challenge
goals
6. Benchmark (“steal shamelessly and legally”) from others
to get to a far better place to then improve from
7. Statutes/ordinances/laws – ensure they are really being
adhered to and not morphed over time into unintended
consequences. Get rid of the old stuff that isn’t
necessary and leads to waste and unnecessary costs
Courtesy, QPIC & Harry Kenworthy: http://www.leangovcenter.com/
QPIC’s Lean Government
General Principles:
8. A leader is anyone who has people working for them –
hire great people and teach them how to be coaches
9. Engage all people in Dynamic Daily Data Collection and
Idea Generation
10. 5S driven throughout the organization to “find stuff
quickly”
Courtesy, QPIC & Harry Kenworthy: http://www.leangovcenter.com/
WHY
LEAN?
Employee
Engagement
Patient
Satisfaction
Quality &
Outcomes
Financial
Results
Patient
Volume
What Next?
•  Training? Learn by Doing?
•  Kaizen and continuous improvement?
•  Lean pilot projects?
•  Lean management systems?
Q&A / Contact Info
•  Web www.MarkGraban.com
–  www.MarkGraban.com/frisco
•  Email Mark@MarkGraban.com
•  Twitter @MarkGraban www.leanblog.org

Mark Graban Intro to Lean - Frisco

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    An Intro toLean @MarkGraban www.MarkGraban.com/frisco © 2016, Constancy, Inc., All Rights Reserved
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    Lean ________ •  LeanEnterprise •  Lean Product Development •  Lean Accounting •  Lean Law •  Lean Startups •  Lean Retail •  Lean Healthcare •  Lean Government
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    What problem are wetrying to solve?
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    Why Lean forHealthcare? No waiting No waste Zero harm Source: an NHS hospital, UK
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    Grand Rapids (MI)Fire Dept. Time to Inspect a Building (Hours) 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 Before After “Reduction in fuel and depreciation for city vehicles because of fewer trips that inspectors have to make to a single building.”
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    Grand Rapids •  “Inspectorsused to do an inspection and then come back to the office to type it up and mail the first violation letter requiring correction within 30 days. •  Now, they issue the first violation notice on site at the end of the inspection, cutting days out of the overall lead time.”
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    Grand Rapids •  LauraKnapp, deputy fire chief for Grand Rapids: – “For me, the whole lean thing just makes a lot of sense. It’s something that I think a lot of people do all of the time, but they don’t do it in a formal way,” – “You look at one piece of the whole process and see what you could do differently, but you never sit down and look at the whole thing.”
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    ThedaCare “Door toBalloon” Time 91 65 52 37 37 45 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
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    Improving Radiology /MRI AccessTime 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 WeeksWaitingTime Outpatient Radiology Backlog
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    Food Bank forNew York City Wait time for meals (minutes) 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Before After
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    Food Bank forNew York City Food box packing time 0:00 0:28 0:57 1:26 1:55 2:24 2:52 3:21 Before After
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    Lean is aset of concepts, principles and tools (thinking) used to create and deliver the most value from the customer’s perspective while consuming the fewest resources , and by engaging people in continuous problem solving. Text and image © Lean Enterprise Institute, used with permission
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    5S Value Stream Maps StandardizedWork Kanban Visual Management A3s
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    “If people areupset, it’s not TPS”
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    What is TPS? • Customer first –  Provide customers with what they want, when they want it, and in the amount they want it •  People are the most valuable resource –  Deeply respect, engage, and develop people •  Continuous improvement (kaizen) –  Engage everyone each and every day •  Shop floor (gemba) focus –  Go to where the work is done to find & solve problems
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    What is Value? • Will the customer pay for the activity? •  Does the activity move the process forward? •  Was the activity done right the first time? Value = 1 – Waste
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    What is Waste? • Type 1: Is required in today’s process and system and cannot be eliminated. Facilitates value-adding work for the patient. •  Type 2: Can be eliminated immediately without ill effect. Value = 1 – Waste
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    The 8 Typesof Waste Type of Waste Example Defects Wrong prescription written for patient Overproduction Too many patients told to arrive at once Transportation Patient walking football fields between oncology clinic and chemotherapy Waiting Patients waiting for a late appointment Employees waiting on work to do Inventory Expired medications and supplies Motion RNs searching for the thermometer Processing Filling out the same form every time Human Potential Time spent on wasteful activities
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    Toyota’s Chairman Mr. Cho • Go See –  “Senior Management must spend time on the front lines.” •  Ask Why –  “Use the “Why?” technique daily.” •  Show Respect –  “Respect your people.” Three Keys to Lean Leadership
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    Reducing Podiatrist Walking • Created standardized cart •  Along with standardized rooms, eliminated the need to leave the room during patient encounters Restocking Checklist
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    Kaizen Card /Idea Card •  Standardized Card in Use –  Prompts staff through the problem solving process
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    People Hate Change? “Peopledon’t resist change, they resist being changed.” –  Peter Scholtes (1938-2009)
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    Six Sigma Projects Large Kaizen Medium Kaizen Small Kaizen Lean Events Bubble size ismeant to roughly represent relative size of effort Complexity Daily Kaizen Woman’s & Children’s 3P EMR Implementation New Indy Bed Tower COG Group Best Practices PACE
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    Kaizen Events (RIE,RPIW) •  “Kaizen Blitz” –  A rapid improvement effort designed to fix a specific problem of limited scope –  Brought to the U.S. by Shingujitsu Consulting –  a.k.a. Rapid Improvement Event, –  Rapid Process Improvement Workshop •  “Kaikaku” –  Dramatic revolutionary change –  “Radical Kaizen”
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    Kaizen Event Steps 54 Monday Preparation& info gathering •  Teach relevant lean concepts •  Set ground rules and expectations •  Gemba walk to gather data Tuesday Data assessment •  Use gemba data to identify improvement opportunities •  Scope the project •  Brainstorm improvement ideas •  Plan for time and resources if needed Wednesday Implementation •  Experiment with solutions •  Follow the PDCA cycle •  Bias for action, not analysis Thursday Standardization •  Select ideas that worked best •  Establish standards •  Results and metrics Friday Presentation •  Experiment with solutions •  Follow the PDCA cycle •  Bias for action, not analysis Audit and Follow- up
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    Franciscan St. FrancisHealth •  27,000 improvements since 2007 •  33 to 40% staff participation each year •  >$6 million in hard cost savings •  Better patient & staff safety, quality, patient satisfaction, waiting times
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    “The culture hereis staff input into everything. They want staff figuring out how to fix things. What can we do to make our job easier? They allow us to implement things to see if it will work.” See videos at www.leanblog.org/franciscanvideos
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    “Treat each idea as agift” •  Norman Bodek
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    Seeing Katie’s Outbox BeforeAfter It was hard for Dee to see Katie’s outbox because other items were in the way Swapped outbox to right side and moved it over on the desk. Effect Outbox is visible from the door, which makes it easier for Dee to take a peek when she walks by. Documents and mail don’t get delayed when they are ready to go out. Less disturbance to Katie since Dee doesn’t have to ask if something is in the outbox. Name ID # Dept # Supervisor Date Dee Long, Katie Hanners BV20120502-1 Business Ventures Katie 5/2/2012
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    Title: WORN Hangtagattachment method Before After Effect Old method for attaching hangtag was very tedious and time consuming (measure string from spool, cut it, thread through hangtag, manually tie around care label). The improved method is based on a pre-cut string that has a plastic locking clasp. The string needs to be looped through the hangtag and then simply locked around the care label. Reduces the packaging time by approximately 1-2 minutes per scarf. Name ID # Dept # Supervisor Date Susan Vinson WORN2012 .5.16.12 WORN Katie Hanners 5/16/12 www.HCKaizen.com
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    QPIC’s Lean Government GeneralPrinciples: 1. One stop shopping whenever and wherever possible – the customer only has to see one person to complete their business. 2. Right the first time – identify and eliminate all sources of errors and rework – this is huge. 3. Reduce waste for the customer: a. Easy forms b. Easy websites to navigate c. What info do they need and how easy is it to get it? d. High use of Checklists Courtesy, QPIC & Harry Kenworthy: http://www.leangovcenter.com/
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    QPIC’s Lean Government GeneralPrinciples: 4. Really “Learn to See” the wastes in all processes by going to the actual work area 5. Focus on areas with high leverage and set challenge goals 6. Benchmark (“steal shamelessly and legally”) from others to get to a far better place to then improve from 7. Statutes/ordinances/laws – ensure they are really being adhered to and not morphed over time into unintended consequences. Get rid of the old stuff that isn’t necessary and leads to waste and unnecessary costs Courtesy, QPIC & Harry Kenworthy: http://www.leangovcenter.com/
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    QPIC’s Lean Government GeneralPrinciples: 8. A leader is anyone who has people working for them – hire great people and teach them how to be coaches 9. Engage all people in Dynamic Daily Data Collection and Idea Generation 10. 5S driven throughout the organization to “find stuff quickly” Courtesy, QPIC & Harry Kenworthy: http://www.leangovcenter.com/
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    What Next? •  Training?Learn by Doing? •  Kaizen and continuous improvement? •  Lean pilot projects? •  Lean management systems?
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    Q&A / ContactInfo •  Web www.MarkGraban.com –  www.MarkGraban.com/frisco •  Email Mark@MarkGraban.com •  Twitter @MarkGraban www.leanblog.org