Review
Engineering, Industrial
V. L. Bittencourt, A. C. Alves, C. P. Leao
Summary: The relationship between Lean Thinking and Industry 4.0 is a focus in the current industrial field. Through a review of 33 papers, it was found that management, processes, and people are the most cited key words in this area, highlighting their importance in company transformation.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Editorial Material
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Jay A. Harolds
Summary: Lean thinking utilizes Lean characteristics to improve processes, reduce waste, and increase customer value. It can be applied in healthcare organizations through tools such as A3 form, root-cause analysis, value stream maps, Gemba walks, kaizen events, and standard work definition. Examples demonstrate how Lean thinking enhances scheduling, productivity, compliance, and reduces the need for space, inventory, personnel, and hospital-acquired infections.
CLINICAL NUCLEAR MEDICINE
(2023)
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Huma Saeed, Hassaan Malik, Umair Bashir, Aiesha Ahmad, Shafia Riaz, Maheen Ilyas, Wajahat Anwaar Bukhari, Muhammad Imran Ali Khan
Summary: This systematic literature review explores the potential application of blockchain technology in the healthcare sector. The study identifies the current implications and gaps in the use of blockchain for healthcare procedures and highlights its benefits in managing clinical records and personal medical information. The review also suggests future research areas such as data protection, system architecture, and regulatory compliance to further enhance the implementation of blockchain in healthcare.
Review
Engineering, Chemical
Olivia McDermott, Jiju Antony, Shreeranga Bhat, Raja Jayaraman, Angelo Rosa, Giuliano Marolla, Ratri Parida
Summary: This paper presents a systematic literature review on the trends and benefits of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) in healthcare. It provides valuable insights for healthcare organizations to embark on a focused LSS journey aligned with strategic objectives.
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Marina Hernandes de Paula e Silva, Ricardo Coser Mergulha, Jose Geraldo Vidal Vieira, Andrea Brasco Pampanelli, Rodrigo Salvador, Diogo Aparecido Lopes Silva
Summary: This study developed and implemented a self-assessment tool to assist companies in decision-making processes for establishing circular flows based on Lean Manufacturing and Circular Economy principles. The tool utilized a maturity model and was applied to nine companies of varying characteristics. The findings revealed that certain companies showed higher maturity in water-waste and chemical-emissions management, with larger enterprises focusing on these strategies. However, many companies lacked sufficient training and employee awareness prior to seeking cleaner alternatives, and comprehensive actions to manage the product lifecycle were lacking. To address these gaps, the tool provided tailored recommendations for each company to improve their processes, products, and value chain.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Daniel Barberato Henrique, Moacir Godinho Filho, Giuliano Marodin, Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour
Summary: This research identifies key success factors for hospitals to sustain lean improvements and proposes a framework to guide hospitals in a structured change process for long-term lean implementation. Through literature analysis and a comparative case study, the study adds new insights and confirms the importance of specific factors in maintaining lean sustainability in healthcare organizations.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Grazia Antonacci, Laura Lennox, James Barlow, Liz Evans, Julie Reed
Summary: Process mapping (PM) is a valuable tool in healthcare for understanding complex systems and improving interventions. However, research on its use in healthcare is limited. This study proposes a framework for quality criteria in implementing, evaluating and reporting PM in healthcare, and reviews published cases to identify context and benefits. Of 105 reviewed studies, none met all quality criteria, highlighting the need for greater rigor in applying PM in healthcare. Studies show the value of PM in navigating complexity in healthcare improvement interventions.
BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Management
Kristen A. Ramori, Elizabeth A. Cudney, Cassandra C. Elrod, Jiju Antony
Summary: The systematic literature review on lean business models used in the healthcare industry highlights the potential benefits of reducing waste, costs, and improving patient satisfaction. It also emphasizes the importance of sustaining competitive advantage for accountable care organisations to meet the demands of customers and competitors. This review serves as a guide for organisations looking to implement lean practices in the healthcare industry.
TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT & BUSINESS EXCELLENCE
(2021)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Andreas Kakouris, Eleni Sfakianaki, Marios Tsioufis
Summary: This study conducted a systematic literature review on Lean Thinking in education, identifying 47 scholarly articles from 20 scientific journals published between 2003 and mid-2018 for further examination. The review provided a comprehensive mapping of recent trends and content of the literature on Lean Thinking in education from various methodological and empirical perspectives, facilitating the classification and comparison of selected articles for future research directions.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Surgery
Pavithra K. Rao, Aaron J. Cunningham, Daniel Kenron, Philip Mshelbwala, Emmanuel A. Ameh, Sanjay Krishnaswami
Summary: This study describes the first attempt to use Lean techniques to improve surgical care systems in low-and-middle income countries. By establishing perioperative committees, holding workshops to teach PI tools, and creating mechanisms for ongoing improvement, quality improvement techniques can be implemented in hospitals in LMICs.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Mandy Archibald, Sandra Wiebe, Kendra Rieger, Janice Linton, Roberta Woodgate
Summary: This study will conduct the first systematic review of living labs across healthcare contexts, using a dual-reviewer, two-step selection process with pre-established inclusion criteria and limit to English language publications. The Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool will be used for methodological quality appraisal, and data on pre-established variables will be extracted for analysis.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Maura Leusder, Petra Porte, Kees Ahaus, Hilco van Elten
Summary: Cost information is crucial in value-based healthcare (VBHC), with sophisticated costing methods seen as valuable for facilitating decision-making. Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) is considered the best method, but its effectiveness depends on implementation.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Berty Argiyantari, Togar Mangihut Simatupang, Mursyid Hasan Basri
Summary: This study conducted action research at an Indonesian pharmaceutical distribution company and demonstrated the application of lean thinking in the pharmaceutical transportation field successfully: reducing transportation costs, shortening lead time, enhancing truck productivity, and improving truckload capacity utilization.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEAN SIX SIGMA
(2022)
Review
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Seung Eun Lee, Christine Repsha, Won Jin Seo, Sang Hwa Lee, V. Susan Dahinten
Summary: Room of horrors simulation is a valuable tool for healthcare education, improving learners' awareness of patient safety hazards. The systematic review highlights the need for further research on team composition and the long-term impacts on learners.
NURSE EDUCATION TODAY
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Amrik Sohal, Tharaka de Vass, Prakash Singh, Shahid Al Balushi, Abdullah Said Al Hajri, Yahya Al Farsi, Rashid Al Arbi
Summary: The study found that Oman's healthcare sector is strong in leadership support, understanding value and customer groups, and is ready for widespread application of lean. While interviewees are aware of challenges, the authors believe that successful execution will lead to strong strategic and operational outcomes.
INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT & DATA SYSTEMS
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Adeel Akmal, Jeff Foote, Nataliya Podgorodnichenko, Richard Greatbanks, Robin Gauld
Summary: The study explores the resistance faced in implementing lean thinking in healthcare by analyzing how clinical staff perceive its appropriateness, acceptability, and legitimacy. By conducting a systematic literature review and semi-structured interviews, three main strategies - communication, cooperation, and performance management - were found to be effective in minimizing resistance and promoting the adoption of lean thinking in healthcare organizations.
PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Adeel Akmal, Robin Gauld
Summary: Alliance governance is a form of governance emphasizing collaborative development of care programs involving multiple stakeholders. It focuses on a systems perspective, performance measurement, relational perspective, structural changes, and equity and inclusion. This model is important for policymakers and practitioners of alliance governance.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Adeel Akmal, Nataliya Podgorodnichenko, Jeff Foote, Richard Greatbanks, Tim Stokes, Robin Gauld
Summary: The challenges facing Quality Improvement Managers (QIMs) are often addressed in isolation, but a viable QI system requires implementation at an organization-wide level, well-resourced and carefully monitored approaches, a long-term vision, and QIMs with the necessary power and influence to integrate QI subsystem within the wider healthcare organization.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Nataliya Podgorodnichenko, Fiona Edgar, Adeel Akmal, Ian McAndrew
Summary: This study examines how HR professionals in organizations with a publicly espoused CSR mandate make sense of and engage with CSR agenda, finding that they draw on CSR-related cues to integrate CSR and that their professional identity and personal characteristics influence levels and modes of CSR engagement.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Adeel Akmal, Robin Gauld, Erin Penno
Summary: This study examines the quality of reporting on the spending related to external consultants and contractors in New Zealand's 20 District Health Boards. The research reveals an increase in total spending over the years but a decrease in reporting quality, with issues such as errors, discrepancies, and a lack of standardized reporting being highlighted.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Nicholas Kirk, Melissa Robson-Williams, Gabriele Bammer, Jeff Foote, Lian Butcher, Neil Deans, Garth Harmsworth, Maria Hepi, Linda Lilburne, Barbara Nicholas, Bruce Small, James A. Turner, Justine Young
Summary: Collaboration has been the preferred method of devising land and water policy in New Zealand, but facing challenges when stakeholders with competing interests need to work together. This paper identifies factors affecting the success of collaboration and provides a list of questions for authorising agencies to reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of pursuing collaboration based on retrospective review and symposium discussions.
KOTUITUI-NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES ONLINE
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Adeel Akmal, Nataliya Podgorodnichenko, Tim Stokes, Jeff Foote, Richard Greatbanks, Robin Gauld
Summary: This article explores the role and perspectives of quality improvement managers. It finds that effective quality improvement managers require experience and expertise in quality improvement, as well as leadership and interpersonal skills. Traditional and clinical quality improvement managers attribute different value to these characteristics.
BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
(2022)
Letter
Medicine, General & Internal
Adeel Akmal, Robin Gauld, Erin Penno
BMJ-BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL
(2021)
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Adeel Akmal, Nataliya Podgorodnichenko, Richard Greatbanks, Jeff Foote, Tim Stokes, Robin Gauld
Summary: This paper presents a quality improvement maturity model based on holistic principles derived from successful implementation of system-wide quality improvement programs. The model consists of four dimensions of organizational maturity progressing through six stages, and can help healthcare organizations diagnose their current state and guide them towards achieving a desirable state of quality improvement maturity. The study found that the scope of quality improvement and principles adopted by healthcare organizations in New Zealand is limited.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEAN SIX SIGMA
(2021)
Article
Management
Adeel Akmal, Nataliya Podgorodnichenko, Richard Greatbanks, Jing A. Zhang
Summary: This study empirically examines the role of soft lean practices in enhancing organizational lean readiness in a small-medium enterprise context, utilizing agency theory to identify four agency factors as proxies for organizational readiness for lean implementation.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Adeel Akmal, Robin Gauld, Nataliya Podgorodnichenko
Summary: This research examines the role of academic business journals in contributing to the divide between research and practice, and the resulting irrelevance of business research. The analysis of top-rated business journals reveals that their guidelines and requirements hinder the communication of research to practice. The study proposes recommendations to improve the publishing model and allow business research to address the challenges faced by our planet, societies, and businesses.
PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL
(2022)
Article
Industrial Relations & Labor
Nataliya Podgorodnichenko, Adeel Akmal, Fiona Edgar, Andre M. Everett
Summary: This empirical study aims to understand how HR managers in organizations with a sustainability agenda perceive employees as stakeholders and implement these views in HR policies and practices. The findings reveal three conceptualizations of employees in relation to the sustainability agenda: employees as a driving force for sustainability, employees as consumers of HR practices, and employees as members of a community. Organizations that addressed all three roles simultaneously showed strong integration between HRM and sustainability agendas. The study emphasizes the importance of considering employees' roles as consumers of HR practices and members of wider communities in a sustainability context.
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
(2022)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Judy Oakden, Mat Walton, Jeff Foote
Summary: This research uses a complexity theory-informed lens to explore the challenges and opportunities of contracting out for public health and social services in New Zealand. Findings show that public sector managers are experimenting with different ways of contracting out, but the underlying New Public Management ethos may hinder these initiatives, highlighting the need to find more effective approaches to outsourcing.
KOTUITUI-NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES ONLINE
(2021)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Graeme Nicholas, Jeff Foote
Summary: This paper discusses methodological challenges in researching practice, emphasizing the importance of understanding the intertwined nature of practice and its performance. It argues for a philosophical hermeneutics approach to collaboratively uncover key variables relevant to practitioners. Furthermore, the paper suggests avoiding rigid definitions and instead seeking a recognizable 'family likeness' in relation to the object of practice through informants' lived experiences.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
(2021)