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Overburdened? Not enough time for your patients? Unsolvable problems, like staff shortages? Trapped in bureaucracy? Use my unique "Patients First Improvement System" to change your work, leadership and organisation for the better.

If you’ve been a provider for a while and still struggling to get your work done, it might be time to “doctor” your processes. To free up time and improve the quality of your work, you will have to diagnose your processes – as you do with your patients – so you will discover how to improve.

Get my new book and pocket coach, Passport to the Gemba* – Learning to See Improvements in Health Care, to make such a “process diagnosis” a lot easier. All without having meetings or writing reports. Because of it’s low price and fun, small sized format, like a real passport 😉, it’s a great addition to your training materials or as a gift to your team.

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  • * Gemba is Japanese for the actual place, where the actual thing happens; the workplace
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  • how to avoid safety incidents
  • the nr. 1 root cause of your problems
  • the questions to diagnose all processes
  • how to get out of “firefighting” mode
  • the essence of Lean leadership
  • 85+ hidden opportunities to improve

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Lean Thinking in Health Care

Safe, compassionate, zero waste, no struggle.

What if you found a way to engage everyone in your organization in actual, meaningful and sustainable improvements? What if you had a strategy that would help you lead the way to the ideal patient experience: safe, compassionate, zero waste, no struggle?

In Lean Thinking in Health Care you will find just that. It hands you everything you need to develop a system and culture, in which all doctors and nurses continuously improve and learn, for and with patients, on a daily basis.

In this book, Arnout Orelio shows you:
  • Why the problems in health care have existed for so long and how to end them
  • How to give all your patients safe, compassionate care, with zero waste and no struggle
  • How stopping projects will get you your results faster
  • How you get everyone to lead change, not just follow
  • How your management can make doctors and nurses love their job again
  • How to judo the 14 most common reasons people resist Lean thinking
  • The one thing you need to commit to, that makes everyone eager to improve

 

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WITH THIS BOOK YOU GET 320 PAGES OF STRATEGIES, EXPERIENCES, EXAMPLES AND LEAN TOOLS.

* E-book and Amazon release follow on a later date. This book is also available in Dutch.


  • Recognizable and applicable across sectors: Lean is a matter of mindset and discipline!

    “The book is well put together and is definitely a valuable resource. Arnout focuses especially on the interwoven strategy of continuous improvement and people development. He has shown courage by writing this book. Although the book is focused on healthcare, I believe the mindset and principles described are applicable everywhere. All in all, creditable work.”
    Jan Hermans, Manager People & Innovation, Toyota Motor Europe

  • Arnout sets the bar high: on the road to world-class health care.

    “the author shares his learning experiences and insights and inspires us in our own journey. He sets the bar high: on the road to world-class health care. We shouldn’t settle for less. By continuously challenging and developing ourselves and others we can take one step at the time towards True North. Learning to learn, together.”
    From the Foreword by Marja Hodac, MD & Healthcare Executive

  • Need a mentor? Need inspiration? Don’t miss this read!

    “The world needs more Lean Thinkers! Arnout’s new book will challenge you to become one of them. Need a mentor? Need inspiration? Arnout’s new book is full of exactly that: examples of organizations that are doing it every day. Don’t miss this read!”
    Paul Akers, President FastCap; Author – “2 Second Lean”

  • Thanks for including us in your book - it’s an honor!

    “[..] our world changed dramatically as a result of your visits to our company. You allowed us to see how we might broaden our scope for transformational work. .. in any workplace where the people inside were willing to embrace the idea that ‘we can do better, together’. .. your visits lit a passion for me to use my life to help people in healthcare to consider working more consistently with the principles underlying the Toyota system.”
    Jeff Kaas, Kaas Tailored

Lean Thinking for Emerging Healthcare Leaders

How to develop yourself and implement process improvements.

As with most providers, you likely spend more time being accountable than actually helping your patients. You’ve pointed this out several times and wonder, “When are ‘they’ finally going to listen to the people on the shop floor?!” With this book, you no longer have to wait for “them” to fix it for you. You get a way to take charge of improving the care for your patients, yourself.

In “Lean Thinking for Emerging Healthcare Leaders”, you’ll find everything you need to self-reliantly make caring for your patients 50 to 90% safer, better and more efficient.

in this book, Arnout will give you:
  • Ways to simplify your work for patients
  • Unlikely excitement for standardization
  • Tips on using your creativity, not your wallet
  • Essential skills for leaders, even if you’re not
  • The most effective routines to improve
  • Questions that “force” you to think, then act
  • No more ”firefighting”
  • Access to a practical version of “Lean thinking”, without overloading you with tools.

 

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YOU GET OVER 200 PAGES OF INSPIRATION, EXPERIENCES, EXAMPLES AND LEAN TOOLS

* E-book available via my publisher BEP. The printed book is also available in Dutch and on Amazon


  • "One of the BEST Lean Books Ever Written"

    “I absolutely LOVED this book! I have so many pages marked that it's about three times bulkier than when I purchased it. While focused on a clinical healthcare setting, it is completely transferrable and applicable to my non-clinical healthcare related setting. I plan to buy one for each member of our operations leadership team. Whether you are new to Lean or have been studying for years, I highly recommend you read this book!”
    Jennifer Mongeau, VP of Clinical Programs (source: Amazon.com)

  • "A perfect gift for every level healthcare manager"

    “It is precise, relatively succinct and bloody apt book in outlining the issues of nowadays healthcare leadership. [ … ] The author Arnout Orelio explains the paradoxes of LEAN in healthcare so frankly, precisely and practically with extremely spot-on examples from the real life. I think the book is a gem that is worth careful reading for everybody in healthcare management in any country of the world. [ … ]”
    Aurelija Juskeviciene, HR Leader (source: Amazon.com)

  • "It made me think how to integrate Lean into my personal development"

    “I loved this part so much:: 'Work methodically on your personal development.' It made me think how to integrate Lean into my personal development and how even to make other use: to develop others.”
    Mohamed Abdel Moemen Mousa, Operational Excellence Consultant

  • A lot of attention for the leadership needed to facilitate improvement."

    “A lot of attention is rightfully paid to leadership that is required to help facilitate improvement. Not only improvement of care processes and their outcomes but also the important component of helping people develop themselves. This development is as much about the medical professional and leader him (or her) self as it is about fellow care workers and team members.”
    From the Foreword by Rutger I.F. van der Waal, dermatologist, MD PhD

  • "Not just another inspiring book, but this book inspires to take action!"

    “Love your vision for healthcare. Even though your main target is medical professionals who recently started a leading role or started their own business, I was able to see something similar in financial services; putting off the fire and running like a headless chicken. Thank you, Arnout for inspiring others to take action.”
    Mindy Borgonje-Ling, Mindset Coach (source: Amazon.de)

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In my books you learn about the road to the ideal patient experience. This requires leadership, focused on continuously improving processes and developing people. The lean tools necessary to make this happen are available to you, free of charge.

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About the author: Arnout Orelio

After my engineering studies, I was a production and project manager in the automotive industry, with no clear purpose in life. Until I became a father…

I have three great sons, but yes … with such wild brats you sometimes visit a hospital. Like that time when my middle son had broken his leg between the spokes of my bicycle. Upon arrival at the emergency room, I was amazed at the lack of clarity. Where were we supposed to go? How long would it take? It gave me a headache and stomach ache, and I wasn’t even the patient. “Surely we can do better, when caring for people,” I thought, making me focus improving healthcare for patients.

I now have 30 years of experience, improving people’s work, leadership and organization, of which 20 in healthcare. With my books, inspiration sessions and 1:1 mentoring, I have helped thousands of providers and leaders make patient care safer, better and more productive.

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