Lean Six Sigma for Healthcare Executives

1. Aggressive cost reduction phases
2. • Lean-Six Sigma key concepts
   • • Adoption of Lean-Six Ssigma definitions
     • Understanding lean
     • Business case for lean
   • Making the case for Lean-Six Sigma thinking
   • • What is Six Sigma
     • The science of Six Sigma
   • What is lean
   • • Flow and capacity optimization
     • Lean principles
   • Lean-Six Sigma simulation
3. Set cost and productivity benchmarks
4. Translate cost benchmarks
5. • Rapid response
   • Lean-Six Sigma project method types
   • • DMAIC
     • Case study
     • A parallel effort: discharge time of day
     • Rapid response
6. Deploy disciplined methodology using 100-day plan
7. Increase organizational capacity for quantum improvement
8. • Lessons from Jack Welsh
   • Jim Collin’s Good to Great
   • Good to great in healthcare
   • Case study: executive interviews
9. Transform belief system toward Lean-Six Sigma
10. • Next step for leaders
    • • Conduct assessment of current improvement systems
      • Pilot 1 or more DMAIC / 100 day workouts in high-leverage processes

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