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Lean Healthcare Breaking
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| December 2007 |
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Photo from left: John Whelton, Leading Edge Group; David Buchdahl, Community College of Vermont; Sharon Kaliouby, Enterprise Ireland; Joe Aherne, Leading Edge Group and Carol Buchdahl, Vermont Technical College. |
The Leading Edge Group and the Community College of Vermont (CCV) have recently signed an articulation agreement for our Lean Healthcare Green Belt Program. The purpose of this articulation agreement is to award four CCV credits and provide an official CCV transcript to individuals not otherwise affiliated with CCV who complete the Lean Healthcare Green Belt Program.
The agreement was signed by David Buchdahl, Dean of Academic Affairs at the Community College of Vermont, and Joe Aherne, CEO of the Leading Edge Group. Joe confirmed that this program is designed to promote professional certification in Lean Healthcare in the state of Vermont linking the Green Belt certification course with a credit-bearing course at CCV. |
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| November 2007 |
| Appointment of Don Clark as Senior Lean Facilitator to the Leading Edge Group |
Don Clark has joined the Leading Edge Group in the US as our senior Lean Facilitator. Don recently received his Executive MBA degree from the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver. He also received a BS in Environmental Management at the University of Findlay, Ohio. Additionally, he has also received extensive training in both Lean and Six Sigma process improvement methodologies with the most recent being Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt level training. Prior to that Don also completed Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean Black Belt, and Six Sigma Green Belt training. He specializes in developing customized Lean Six Sigma (LSS) programs tailored to drive value enhancement within a client’s unique value stream.
Don is also an Executive Programs faculty member for the Institute for Leadership and Organizational Performance at Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver and serves as the Program Director for all Lean Healthcare programs.
Don has spent over 18 years with Johns Manville, a fiberglass manufacturing company with headquarters located in Denver, CO. While at Johns Manville Don was able to apply his LSS knowledge and skills to a wide variety of projects ranging from Kaizen events on the shop floor, to set-up reduction projects that improved timing and resource allocation on major equipment rebuilds, to VOC (voice of the customer) identification focused on redesigning the structure of the corporate environmental services group. He has also been instrumental in developing project benefit tracking mechanisms, running project identification and selection events, and training others through-out the organization on the various LSS tools sets. |
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| September 2007 |
| Leading Edge Opens US Contact Center |
The Leading Edge Group is proud to announce that it now has a physical presence in the USA through the opening of a contact center for any US-based enquiries for our product and service offerings. Our contact center is based in Parker Colorado and is headed by newly-appointed Business Development Consultant Kelley Williamson BFA.
Kelley has over twenty years of successful leadership and management; performance management; sales; process improvement; and organizational development with such companies as Software Spectrum, Expanets, Business Technology Consultants, RELERA, and others. She has a consistent record of significant contributions to profit levels and productivity. During her two years as Vice President of Sales for Business Technology Consultants at Software Spectrum, Kelley helped lead her division from $200,000 to approximately $5M in sales. Kelley also works as Manager of Learning and Development at the University of Colorado Hospital.
Full contact details for the Leading Edge Group's US office can be found on the Contact Us page on this site. To access this page, please click here. |
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| May 2007 |
| Leading Edge Group announces strategic arrangement with leading global business college |
| The Leading Edge Group and The Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver have announced an agreement to launch a new and unique Lean Helath care Education initiative. At a conference in Dublin last Friday, May 11th, as part of Entreprise Ireland's Technology Showcase, representatives from both sides of the new strategic partnership discusses their academic program aimed at preparing health professionals for managing change through process improvement accross the global healthcare sector.Please click here for more details. |
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| May 2007 |
| Leading Edge Group Senior Lean Healthcare Consultant to speak at UK Healthcare Process Mapping Conference |
| Leading Edge Group Senior Lean Healthcare Consultant Joe O'Callaghan is to be one of the keynote speakers at an upcoming healthcare process mapping conference at The Royal Society in London on June 22nd. Read More |
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| April 2007 |
The Leading Edge Group receives 2007 Business of the Year Award |
| The Leading Edge Group received a prestigious accolade on Friday 27th of April when Joe Aherne CPA, Chief Executive of the company was presented with the ConocoPhilips Business of the Year Award 2007 on behalf of Cobh and Harbour Chamber. In presenting the Award on behalf of ConocoPhilips Don Hegarty, spoke of the numerous accomplishments that the Leading Edge Group had achieved over the past 12 years and its continual growth in the areas of process improvement, supply chain management and the provision of Lean facilitation, education and training. In accepting the Award, Joe Aherne, thanked the Chamber and ConocoPhilips, and paid tribute to his team and his family, without whom, he said “this success would not have been possible”
The key note speaker at the event – former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds – complimented the Leading Edge Group team on its successes in industry over the last number of years, and encouraged all in attendance to strive towards a more knowledge-based competitive business environment in Ireland. Minister for Trade and Commerce – Michael Ahern T.D. – added his congratulations to the Leading Edge Group, and outlined his admiration for Joe Aherne and the team. |
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Pictured above are Don Heagarty, of ConocoPhilips (left) and Kathleen Geary, Chief Executive, Cobh & Harbour Chamber (right), presenting the Business of the Year Award to Joe Aherne (centre), CEO, Leading Edge Group |
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| November
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Lean Healthcare Conference a Resounding Success |
Ireland's first ever Lean Healthcare Conference, organised by Lean Healthcare Services, was held on October 26th in Croke Park, Dublin. Delegates at this Conference represented a large cross-section of the Irish Healthcare sector. Based on feedback received, all delegates found the event to be interesting, enlightening, and expressed the view that Lean Healthcare is of upmost importance and relevance in Ireland today. For more information, please click
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| October
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19th Annual Society for
Health Systems Conference |
The 19th Annual Society for Health
Systems Conference will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana on
February 23 - 24, 2007 with a Post-Conference Workshop on
February 25th. This year’s conference theme,
“Improving Patient Flow and Access – Across the
Continuum of Care”, was chosen to address a range of the most
pressing issues facing Administrators, Physicians, Clinical Leaders,
and Clinicians and their performance improvement partners working in
healthcare. For more information, please click
here.
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IIE National Conference
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The Irish Institute of Industrial Engineers'
Annual Conference will be held in The Mount Lyrath Hotel, Kilkenny on
Wednesday October 18th 2006. The theme of the Conference will be
'Productivity - Ireland's Key Economic Challenge'. For further
information, please click heshsre
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| July
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Leading Edge Group Working
with National College of Ireland to achieve Academic Accreditation for
Lean Green Belt
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The Leading Edge Group is to collaborate
closely with the National College of Ireland (NCI) to gain academic
accreditation for its Lean Green Belt Certification programs. This will
enable students who successfully complete any of the programs to gain a
number of Level 6 academic credits under the National Framework of
Qualifications. These credits can be used to gain exemptions on
higher-level courses, and are transparent, comparable and compatible
internationally, thus enabling learners to move easily between
different education and training systems, using their qualifications
for employment in other countries.
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| May
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First Irish Lean
Healthcare Conference
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Our Lean Healthcare
certification program is continuing to attract widespread support in
the USA, Australia, and mainland Europe. Due to member demand, we have
recently decided to host the first Irish Lean Healthcare conference in
October 2006. We are currently working on speakers for the conference,
and will update the site with any developments over the coming weeks. |
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On-line Learning Community
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We have recently surveyed our existing
students on the quality, service, and content of our certification
programs. A common request among all students was to facilitate an
on-line learning community for healthcare professionals to enable
meaningful discussions on the approaches adopted by different hospitals
in the implementation of Lean Healthcare initiatives. We are currently
working on developing this community.
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April
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Academic Accreditation
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The Leading Edge Group are working with a
number of academic institutions to secure European academic credits for
our certification programs. These credits are recognized as part of the
European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).
This will enable any student in an EU member state to apply their Lean
credits gained through completion of our certification program against
recognised degree and post -graduate programs offered in another EU
state. We are estimating that this process will be completed in Quarter
4 of this year. The next stage in this process will be to look for
reciprocal arrangements for US and Canadian students
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March
2006 |
Joe Aherne, Managing Director of the Leading
Edge Group, recently published an article on Lean Healthcare for the
Lean division of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. The article is
titled ‘Power of Lean Healthcare’ and is available
under Articles in our Healthcare Resources section.
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