By: Dan Fleming

Dan Fleming — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 20:15:51 +0000

Bruce, thought provoking as usual. When I work in Healthcare, I reference FTE in the context of “What’s the likely hood that you’ll get another FTE (person I thought) if you feel you need one.” Nearly everyone raises their eyebrows while nodding. They know the answer. Today, in healthcare (and in manufacturing) we need to make best use of the resources we have and not simply add as we’ve done in the past. As a result, we’ve learned that we need to justify new resources and Lean can help. A healthcare colleague recently told me that she loves VSM because it helped her justify 2 new positions. In the future, I’ll refrain from using the FTE acronym to avoid a painful reminder of this cost cutting approach for those of us that have been impacted by it. I suspect it’s all of us.
Thank you!

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By: Dan Fleming