Lean Thinking in a Health Care Organisation - Developing Implementation Strategies and Methods

CIP project group: PhD Student Martin Laursen, Associate Professor Frank Gertsen (primary advisor) and Professor John Johansen (associate advisor) Project duration: 2002 - Spring 2005 Budget cuts, spiralling costs and mounting operation quotas are hitting Danish hospitals hard. An alternative management perspective, lean thinking, may be just what the doctor ordered. Using lean, this project looks to help a health care organisation increase its productivity by using less of everything, not least time.