HERD Vol. 3, No. 2 WINTER 2010 • HEALTH ENVIRONMENTS RESEARCH & DESIGN JOURNAL 3 “Health care projects are very complex, and extensive planning is required to deliver them. Hundreds of participants, thousands of products and systems, and tens of thousands of decisions must be orchestrated on the path to nal completion” (Burgun, Sprague, Stein, & Atkins, 2008, p.119). Healthcare construction may...

Category of paper Research paper combined with a case study Purpose To demonstrate that lean management could be successfully applied in an enterprise from an Eastern European country like Romania. To propose solutions in order to improve the current management practices in the Romanian industry and to increase productivity in order to deal with global competition. To implement the customer-sup...

The article discusses potential applications of a risk-based approach to health facility management. study analyzed various management models, as well process-oriented and project-oriented systems, the use risk management, quality standards, lean technologies (lean manufacturing), scorecard interfaces (score ratings). presents results applying analysis, which was developed using balanced that d...

Nowadays, populations are concentrated in large cities exceeding millions of peoples; the need for massive infrastructure constructions and services becomes the priority for governments and local municipality institutions. However, the realization of such projects still problematic and conventional techniques quickly become inadequate. Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) recommendation...

Maintenance has become a management issue, with its function as a contributor towards profit. This indicates the need for the maintenance operation to align with the business objectives and increase value for the enterprise. As a contributor to current management techniques, lean thinking approaches are now more commonly used. Without strong evidence to support the presence of generic lean thin...

Knowledge network/mobilisation and lean performance have been most often discussed in an isolated manner in generic context in literature. Few studies currently exist that focus on their relationship in supply chain management. This study investigates the relationships between knowledge network types/ mobilisation approaches and successful lean performance outcome using fuzzy-set qualitative co...

This thesis focuses on distribution tactics developed and analyzed for the lean extended enterprise of a chemical/imaging firm. The work describes the application and concept of value delivery heijunka as a key capability of lean extended enterprises. The thesis also encompasses topics important for lean extended enterprises. Notable topics include the theory of the firm and the evolution of bu...

A concept of Lean can be seen as a loosely connected set of potentially competing principles whose goal is cost reduction by the elimination of waste, and organise the possible effort to utilise waste of all kinds in a productive way. The avoidance and then lateral removal of waste has a long history, and as such this history forms much of the basis of the philosophy now known as "Lean". Many o...

In this paper, we present a model of lean supplier management between an OEM and its suppliers for the objectives of eliminating wastes, reducing cost and improvement continuously based on the lean production. This model includes supplier selection and categorization, supplier improvement, supplier certification and supplier evaluation. First, the supplier selection process and some basic princ...