As a leading worldwide provider of Lean consulting to healthcare institutions, VALUMETRIX^® Services works with you to ensure the success of your first project. At the same time, we transfer the necessary tools and skills to your team members, enabling them to apply Lean methodologies to other areas of your organization.

A consulting engagement typically begins with an on-site assessment. The goal is to identify those areas where process improvement would yield the most rapid and dramatic gains. After making a presentation to your senior management and helping you gain buy-in, your consultant helps you form and train a Lean team.

The consultant then guides your team through the Lean process, which typically includes:

1. A comprehensive analysis of your current process. This may include videotaping the progress of a work order and conducting a second-by-second analysis of its movement through your operation. The same approach is applied to your operators. How much of their time goes to adding value? How much is lost to carrying samples around and searching for materials?
2. The results of this analysis are then presented to your staff using a variety of statistical and graphing tools. Seeing hard data on the extent of the inefficiency helps enlist their support for the changes to come.
3. Once the causes of waste have been identified and prioritized, the next step is to formulate solutions. This is where the extensive healthcare experience of VALUMETRIX^® works to your benefit. We recommend realistic steps that will have the greatest impact. We help you build group consensus so that the changes are accepted and conscientiously applied.
4. Finally, your VALUMETRIX^® mentor helps you measure the outcomes and confirm your real-world savings.
5. To ensure your continued success, we guide you in establishing a process for ongoing productivity monitoring. This helps you identify compliance issues and opportunities for additional savings.

Once the engagement is complete, your people have the tools and skills to lead subsequent Lean projects in additional areas of your organization. Follow-up support is available from VALUMETRIX^® Services on an as-needed basis.

A typical engagement takes 12 to 16 weeks - from the first kick-off meeting to presenting the documented gains to your senior management.

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