Lean Consultants

Lean Consulting works with your Enterprise using a set of principles and tools that are used to improve quality, prevent waste, reduce lead-time and increase value to the customer.

What is Lean?

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Lean Health Care

Lean health care takes the principles developed in Lean enterprise and applies them to a health care setting. With many hospitals facing budget problems and at the same time being asked to raise their quality of care health care providers large and small have started looking outside the health care world and have found the ideas in Lean enterprise helpful in overcoming these challenges. Lean health care shares many of the same terms and techniques as Lean enterprise and still focuses on the fundamental goals of reducing waste and improving quality. Several of the top U.S. hospitals, both from a financial and quality of care standpoint, have adopted Lean methodologies that have helped them attain their top tier rankings. Examples of facilities that have implemented Lean include: The Cleveland Clinic who has been recognized for providing the most cost effective care out of the top 5 medical centers in the country and the Providence Regional Medical Center who decreased their average patient stay by a day and dramatically increased patient satisfaction using Lean techniques.

Six Sigma

Six Sigma is a management philosophy, first developed at Motorola, which emphasizes setting extremely high objectives, collecting data, and analyzing results as a way to reduce defects in products and services. The Greek letter sigma is used here to denote variation from a standard. The philosophy behind Six Sigma is to systematically eliminate defects in a process in order to get as close to perfection as possible. In order for a company to achieve Six Sigma, it cannot produce more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities. (Source: Definition of “six sigma” copyrighted and used with permission of whatis.com (http://www.whatis.com) and TechTarget Inc.).

The McDonald Consulting Group can supply consulting and training for each phase of the DMAIC/DMADV process – when you need it, only what you need, and at a very affordable price compared with traditional Six Sigma Programs!

Six Sigma + Lean = Lean Sigma

Together, Lean and Six Sigma Tools comprise a powerful continual improvement engine for any organization to achieve world-class bottom line results.

Lean provides the methods for dramatically reducing lead times and waste, while Six Sigma provides the ‘horsepower’ to tackle sustained improvement for a complex problem.  By combining Lean and Six Sigma, organziation are able to increase operating income (through eliminate of waste, and becoming more efficient) while  increasing customer satisfaction (by focusing on what is important to fix from a customer viewpoint.  This leads to higher profits and better shareholder value as well as higher customer satisfaction. [Stop reading here if your organization does not want more money, happier clients, and satisfied stakeholders!]

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