Lean has come to healthcare, and it is really making waves. The potential of lean to find innovative, streamlined solution that enable improved organizational performance is undisputed. But Lean turns out to be very difficult to implement. This book can help you and your organization with the toughest challenge in Lean Healthcare full implementation of Lean projects to achieve concrete results. Top management will not spread Lean across their organizations based on Lean's potential; the spread of Lean is dependent on the actural business value that management sees generated from Lean projects in their own organizations. The healthcare managers who will be successful in the worlds of today and tomorrow will be the ones who can look at waves of change and see opportunity; who can design a vision and strategy for a more positive future for their organizations; who can implement their designs; who can use Lean to continuously improve the performance of their organizations. "You don't have to be afraid of change any longer! Dutch's work offers entertaining and simple solutions that will help you move swiftly and efficiently through the growing pains of organizational change," says Ken Blanchard, author of The Secret and The One Minute Manager.

Telemedicine works and can provide cost effective care to patients in remote locations. That's the good news. The bad news is that a telemedicine practice is very difficult to implement. This book can help you and your organization prosper with a telemedicine practice, not create a storeroom with expensive, dust covered technology. This book will show you how to excel at leading change in today's complex healthcare environment, an environment that can mean success or failure for those wishing to implement telemedicine. The managers who will be successful in implementing telemedicine today and tomorrow will be the ones who can look at waves of change and see opportunity; who can design a telemedicine vision and strategy for a more positive future for their organizations; and who can implement their designs on target, on time, and on budget by capitalizing on the strengths of their organizations and their bright and dedicated associates. "You don't have to be afraid of change any longer! Dutch's work offers entertaining and simple solutions that will help you move swiftly and efficiently through the growing pains of organizational change," says Ken Blanchard, author of The Secret and The One Minute Manager.

THE NEW PARADIGM FOR CHANGE: ONE ORGANIZATION WITH TWO MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Todays business organization must Run-the-Business to hit this years profit targets and simultaneously Change-the-Business to be able to hit next years profit targets. In the new change paradigm, an organization must have both a Run-the-Business Management System and a parallel Change-the-Business Management System. This book focuses on the Change-the-Business System, called Organizational Project Management (OPM), that continuously performs: Visioning: Designing better futures for the organization Portfolio Management: Allocating resources to create capabilities for the futures Program Management: Leading initiatives to build capabilities Project Management: Using best minds to design capabilities. Change Engineering: Integrating capabilities into operations.

LEAN SUCCESS METHODOLOGY How to make Lean solutions Stick! By Dutch Holland, PhD & Duke Rohe, BSIE Why do most Lean projects fail to produce business value? They dont fail because of the Lean tools and techniques. They fail because the organization does not use a proven methodology for implementation! This book provides a methodology for implementing Lean: a comprehensive roadmap, a set of methods, rules, and important ideas plus a set of step-by-step procedures for Implementing Lean. The book contains the following 1. An implementation road map with steps from problem analysis to Business Value. 2. The practical and integrated Implementation steps that have been proven to work. a. What is each Step? b. Why take this Step? c. Who should lead this Step? d. How do I accomplish this Step effectively & efficiently? e. How do I keep track of all the steps needed for implementation of a Lean solution? You dont have to be afraid of change any longer! Dutchs work offers entertaining simple solutions that will help you move swiftly and efficiently through the growing pains of organizational change, says Ken Blanchard. Are you using a proven methodology for your Lean implementations?

The Future Belongs to the Digital Engineer By Dutch Holland and Jim Crompton "The Digital Engineer will be a person with knowledge and skill in the use of engineering and digital technology to enable major process improvements and performance increases in both physical and business operations." New engineers today enter the workforce with high digital literacy, in addition to their qualifications in traditional disciplines. The challenge is to turn new professionals into Digital Engineers who bring value to the business. "Jim Crompton, with his coauthor Dutch Holland, has clearly shown us how to bring historically-disconnected skills, organizations and technologies together to drive competitive advantage. This book needs to be on every upstream business person's digital bookshelf." Peter J. Robertson, former Vice Chairman of the Board, Chevron Corporation

This book can help you and your organization implement digital oilfield technology and take it all the way to the bank. This book will show you how to excel at leading the changes needed to implement the Digital Oilfield and which is an absolute requirement for upstream organizational and personal success and only way that business people will be able to not only survive but also thrive in the days ahead. The upstream managers who are successful in the worlds of today and tomorrow will be the ones who can look at waves of change and see opportunity; who can design a vision and strategy for a more positive future for their organizations by using digital technology; and who can implement their designs on target, on time, and on budget by capitalizing on the strengths of their organizations and their bright and dedicated associates. You dont have to be afraid of change any longer! Dutchs work offers entertaining and simple solutions that will help you move swiftly and efficiently through the growing pains of organizational change. says Ken Blanchard, author of The Secret and The One Minute Manager.