Marlon Borbon

Performance Improvement | Lean Management

How Can a Kanban System Improve Health Care?

Defining kanban In Japanese, the term kanban means “visual signal” or “card.” At first glance, it’s hard to believe that a process perfected in a supermarket chain would have implications for health care. In the 1940s, employees from Toyota observed the way that U.S. supermarkets consistently provided their customers with the food they wanted at the time they wanted it — without holding on to massive amounts of inventory. The...

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