Healthcare Mindset
Haven't you felt in recent years the sensation of being overtaken by events? You probably blamed it on a lack of resources, equipment, or personnel. [...]
LQS – Lean, Quality and Safety
QA (Quality Assurance) – or Quality Control – is a discipline that also involves Patient Safety, according to the IOM – Institute of Medicine. Since [...]
LEAN HEALTHCARE: a way forward
We write again on this topic, because in these times, in the face of cost increases, it seems that the Health sector needs a "retrofit" [...]
Opus MK5 – the automated oral liquids fractionation machine
The case described is a pilot project of a hospital complex consisting of 6 hospitals with a total of 1,800 beds. In July 2020 the [...]
Lean Culture
Lean Organizationis is the name given to systems derived from the Toyota Production System - TPS. It started in the Toyota automobile sector and spread [...]
Less is More
Why have we humans embedded in our culture the desire to always go further? Increase? And have more? We accept that “more is better” without [...]
Managers in exponential times
I have always been a synthesizer of ideas or concepts. Of course, I am aware of the risks involved, because when you mix water with [...]
If you don’t have the question, you’ll never have the answer
We spend a lot of time glued to the screen, receiving new information, and very little time processing and interpreting what we already know, to [...]
The only certainty we have is to adapt and change the mindset
We keep repeating the same paths, solutions and strategies as before. It is not that we must throw in the trash previous experiences, but we [...]
Why Reducing Waste Matters?
The reduction of waste is important because it has a symmetrical impact on pre-tax profits. In other words: less waste = more profit. As human [...]