NOVACES will be making a Special Breakfast Presentation at the 24th IHI – Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care SIB1: “Force Multiplier: Using Constraints Management to Take Operational Excellence to Dramatic New Levels” by Halder, Robert, MD, Rear Admiral, US Navy (Ret), Executive Medical Consultant, NOVACES, LLC; Makaroff, Jason, Senior Business Consultant, […]

Many people who have gone through a TOC Jonah training session have come away overwhelmed and sometimes feeling like they are unable to apply what they’ve learned.  Let’s face it, the TOC Thinking Process tools are just not easy for some people to grasp and apply, so they kind of put them on the back-burner […]

NOVACES will host a Lean Healthcare Training in Valdosta on September 24 thru 28. Rising pressure for medical facilities to become more efficient and to control costs is creating a need for professionals who can implement Lean Healthcare, a process improvement methodology that has proven to speed up the adoption of new ideas and change […]

Troop drawdowns in Iraq and Afghanistan and impending cuts in number of troops directed by the DoD has created an urgent need for business transformation within the VA hospital system that supports our veterans after they have transitioned back to civilian life.  Among the various improvement strategies for the VHA is the Systems Redesign, which […]

San Mateo, CA, July 09, 2012 –(PR.com)– Stottler Henke Associates, Inc. today announced that the US Navy has selected Aurora-CCPM™ software to schedule maintenance operations at the Naval Submarine Support Facility in New London, Connecticut. NSSF provides direct maintenance, repair, and upkeep support to the 21 nuclear attack submarines that operate out of the Naval […]

Hiring an expert is often one of the first steps taken by hospitals embarking upon a Lean Healthcare or Lean Six Sigma program. Usually a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt is chosen to develop the program. Unfortunately, there are few Black Belts at large that actually have the Lean Six Sigma skills and healthcare experience […]

Do you believe your organization has too many performance measures or too few? Having good data available enables better decisions to be made, but not when the expense of collecting all the data is so high that it severely limits your resources to fix problems and improve quality. This results in a lot of measuring, […]

For those of us engaged in performance improvement initiatives there seems to be a constant bombardment of “things” that seem get in the way of what we’re trying to accomplish.  Things that interfere with our attempts to achieve a goal or objective in our quest to make things better.  Some of these things come out […]

Below is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of our recently published book, Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management In today’s competitive and highly volatile economic environment, change is the rule while the steady-state is momentary and uncertain. Change management must be embedded in the technical transformation that is […]

Below is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of our recently published book, Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management A Process-level VSA, or ProcessVSA, is an approach to analyzing a process to identify and eliminate non-value adding activities as well as to develop procedures to manage bottlenecks effectively and […]