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Branson consultants were hired by Steelcase to assist them in their lean enterprise transformation. See what Steelcase has to say about this effort! This is a great example of creating self-sufficiency.

I've been thinking a lot recently about just what a business really is. As a lean process thinker, my best answer is that a business is a collection of value creating processes. Indeed, it's the sum of its processes.

Lean Thinkers never take the current state for granted. For example, rather than optimising the flow of products through a bottleneck process, they think hard about how to design right-sized equipment to insert in the value stream and eliminate the bottleneck.

Integrated delivery systems (IDSs) continue to be created to meet the healthcare market's need for improved operational efficiency and quality care. As systems are formed and patient care delivery is restructured, provider organizations within systems experience revenue and margin transfers.