leangurus.com Blog » Healthcare Delivery http://leangurus.com/blog The place for all of you Lean Gurus out there. Tue, 10 May 2011 00:36:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Process Improvement Help http://leangurus.com/blog/2008/05/04/process-improvement-help/ http://leangurus.com/blog/2008/05/04/process-improvement-help/#comments Sun, 04 May 2008 17:30:49 +0000 Aaron http://leangurus.com/blog/2008/05/04/process-improvement-help/ I have put together an outline of topics that are included in my continous process improvement course.
To view or download the outline click on the link below:
Course Syllabus (25k Word Document)

This course is designed to be completed in four 1 1/2 hour segments in a classroom or over the web. I also have a deep dive 3 day course that covers an introduction of continuous process improvement. Please contact me for more specifics.

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