A conference like no other you have attended. For the first time those
involved in taking lean into healthcare across the world are coming
together to brainstorm what a lean future for healthcare will look like.
The fact that almost every one of the experts I invited immediately said
they were enthusiastic to come, tells me that
The First Global Lean
Healthcare Summit on 25-26 June
is timely
(http://www.leanuk.org/pages/lean_summit.htm). It also gave me a
challenging juggling act to fit them all into the programme.
In my experience the early wins from creating flow through value streams
in hospitals will not be sustained unless we go further to build the right
kind of leadership and management systems to manage what are
collections of processes that need careful synchronisation, and the right
kind of support from supply chain partners.
For the first time we are bringing the whole industry together - connecting
pioneering lean stories in hospitals with similar stories from the supply
industry feeding the healthcare system. Enriched by insights into leading
lean transformations in two of the best lean examples in the UK, Unipart
in distribution and Tesco in retailing.
This is not an awareness raising conference, but a chance for those really
interested in lean healthcare to join a serious and structured
brainstorming and vision sharing exercise. This will begin with briefing
papers ahead of the conference and a summary of the discussions
afterwards. Our objective is that every delegate will go away from the
Summit with their own action plan and vision.
The best way to gain most from this very rich material is to bring a group
of colleagues with you, who can continue to implement lean together after
the Summit. For this reason we are offering groups a
discount
- bring
five and only pay for four, bring ten and only pay for eight etc.
Attending The First Global Lean Healthcare Summit will probably be the
best investment you will make in your lean journeys this year. We look
forward to seeing you in June. If you have any further questions do not
hesitate to contact us at LEA.
Best wishes
Professor Daniel T Jones
Professor Daniel T Jones
P.S.
LEA has taken this initiative on behalf of our Lean Global Network of
12 lean institutes across the world. Interest in lean healthcare is now
global and it will be a truely global summit. Please alert anyone you know
who might be interested in coming.
