أبحاث إقتصادية معاصرة
Volume 7, Numéro 2, Pages 91-112
2024-10-31
Lean Management Approach As An Application Tool For Cost Reduction
Authors : Lebrague Riad .
Abstract
This paper investigates the lean management methodology and its applications in organizations, specifically in the healthcare sector. The study focuses on analyzing three healthcare organizations, Odense University Hospital (Denmark), Virginia Mason Medical Centre (USA), and Mbeya Zonal Referral Hospital (Tanzania), seeking to reduce the cost of their daily operations via Value Stream Mapping, Kizen, Toyota Production System, and Total Quality Management. The study’s research methodology was based on analyzing previously published articles, papers, and reports on the later organizations. Furthermore, we examined the cost of waiting time, the number of treated patients, the number of walked steps for nurses to reach patients, the number of problems faced by a hospital, and resources management, before and after the implementation of lean management. The results of this research demonstrated a significant impact of implementing Value Stream Mapping, Kizen, Toyota Production System, and Total Quality Management as effective cost-reduction tools for healthcare organizations.
Keywords
Lean management ; Value stream mapping ; Kizen ; Toyota production system ; Total quality management ; Healthcare
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