Table 3 Lean adoption maturity
US | Italy | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | % | Mean | SD | N | % | Mean | SD | |
Current Performance Improvement Approach | ||||||||
282 | 97 | |||||||
Benchmarking for Best Practices | 131 | 46 | 44 | 45 | ||||
Lean | 149 | 53 | 35 | 36 | ||||
The Model for Improvement | 54 | 19 | NA | NA | ||||
High Reliability Organization (HRO) | 81 | 29 | 69 | 71 | ||||
Value-based Healthcare | NA | NA | 9 | 9 | ||||
FOCUS-PDCA | 88 | 31 | 4 | 4 | ||||
Six Sigma without Lean | 18 | 6 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Currently doing any Lean? | 282 | 97 | ||||||
Yes | 149 | 53 | 35 | 36 | ||||
No | 133 | 47 | 62 | 64 | ||||
MATURITY ADOPTION | ||||||||
Number of years doing Lean | 143 | 4.6 | 3.56 | 35 | 4 | 3.57 | ||
Lean self- reported maturity | 144 | 34 | ||||||
Still in the new start-up stage | 32 | 22 | 10 | 29 | ||||
Beyond start-up, but challenged moving forward | 49 | 34 | 4 | 12 | ||||
Expanding to other units and getting traction | 55 | 38 | 16 | 47 | ||||
Mature transformational performance improvement | 8 | 6 | 4 | 12 | ||||
Number of units doing Lean | 138 | 11.9 | 7.69 | 35 | 6 | 3.87 | ||