Course Archives
VIL #1: The Vision Summary - Starting a value improvement effort
VIL #2: Value Improvement Methodology - Using Process thinking
VIL #3: The Value Summary - Acting your way into thinking
VIL #4: SMART Goals - Defining metrics critical to your project
VIL #5: Voice of the Customer - Understanding patients' needs
VIL #6: Value Stream - Considering the patient's perspective
VIL #7: Seven Wastes in Health Care - Identifying value-added and non-value-added
VIL #8: Gemba - Go to where the work happens
VIL #9: Process Mapping - Bring clarity to the complex
VIL #10: Data-Driven Decision Making - Why value leaders are data-driven
VIL #11: Brainstorming - It's energizing, but not analysis
VIL #12: Special Cause Variation vs. Common Cause Variation - Test for noise and signal
VIL #13: Histograms and Run Charts - Explaining a continuous dataset
VIL #14: Standard Deviation - Summarizes dispersion (but can be misleading)
VIL #15: Baseline Analysis and Investigation - This is necessary
VIL #16: Box and Whisker Plot - Great for visualizing variation within and between groups
VIL #17: Pareto Analysis - How to separate the vital few from the trivial many
VIL #18: Value Summary Revisit - How to act your way into thinking
VIL #19: Standard Work - Helpful reminders, constantly at the ready, improve process
VIL #20: Forcing Functions - Mistake-proofing mechanisms
VIL #21: Visual Workplace Management - Visual cues in the workflow
VIL #22: Implementation and Piloting - A few project management fundamentals
Steve Johnson
Complete archive of the lean six sigma training series: Steve's Dojo.
What if you could redesign healthcare from the ground up? If you were to start with the healthcare value-added test applied to each decision, what would healthcare delivery look, sound, and feel like? Would you be able to shake off the preconceived notions of what it takes to run a healthcare system? Would hospitals be recognizable? In this week's post of Steve's Dojo (or continuing Lean Six Sigma education), we revisit the healthcare value-added test.
The 8th waste is underutilization of employee talent. In this week's post of Steve's Dojo (or continuing Lean Six Sigma education), Steve revisits Taiichi Ohno’s "7 wastes" and answers why he doesn't teach the "8th waste" at University of Utah.
