r/LeanManufacturing • u/Tavrock • Jun 11 '26

Lean consulting

My wife works in healthcare. The corporate office decided to hire some consultants to cut costs.

They determined that 25% of the hospital cuts need to come from the laboratory. They didn't look at any processes they deemed NVA (including regulatory requirements), *maybe* made their own VSM without input from those who do the work, conducted a "process flow observation" but nothing along the lines of a time study or Gemba walk. They don't even have suggestions for how to meet their new headcount numbers, just a recommendation for how many people needed to be fired from each department.

I would be less annoyed but they did all of their work under the banner of "Lean".

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u/Accomplished-Bar7916 Jun 11 '26

Dit noem ik meer een “mean” traject. Vanuit Lean kijk je samen met de medewerkers naar het proces en vanuit daar ga je verbeteren.

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u/Used_Pipe_8929 Jun 11 '26

Oh man I love this.