Healthcare Engineering: A Lean Management Approach

Table 1

Summary of literature review on lean implementation.

Area of research	Subarea	Authors
Key implementation success factors	Leadership skills and involvement	Achanga et al. [33]	Kundu and Manohar [34]
		Aij [15]	Maijala et al. [35]
		Doss and Orr [36]	Najem et al. [37]
		Hamid [38]	Steed [39]
		Kumar et al. [40]	Vermaak [41]
	Holistic implementation of lean	Bateman et al. [31]	Machado et al. [19]
		Costa and Godinho Filho [28]	Parkhi and Suresh [29]
		Guillebaud [30]	Poksinska et al. [25]
	Employee involvement	Hamid [38]
		Harmon et al. [42]	Vermaak [41]
	Organizational culture	Achanga et al. [33]
		Hamid [38]	Kundu and Manohar [34]
		Kumar et al. [40]	Najem et al. [37]
	Customer focus	Hamid [38]	Kumar et al. [40]
Implementations benefits achieved	Waste reduction, customer satisfaction, cycle time reduction, administrative benefits, employee satisfaction, better performance quality, etc.	Folinas and Faruna [43]	Papadopoulas [44]
		Graban [8]	Rexhepi and Shrestha [45]
		Kanamori et al. [18]	Shazali at al. [46]
		Hussain and Malik [27]	Womack and Jones [16]
Enabelers and barriers		Bateman et al. [31]	Manos et al. [20]
		Costa and Godinho Filho [28]	Patri and Suresh [29]
		Fillingham [20]	Radnor et al. [22]
		Leite et al. [26]	Teich and Faddoul [24]
Success implementations		Aij [15]
		Kovacevic et al. [13]	Mannon [14]
Failed implementations		Fillingham [20]	Øvretveit [3]
		Nembhard [4]	Shortell et al. [2]
Mixed results		Barnabè et al. [9]	Maijala et al. [35]
		D’Andreamatteo at al. [5]	Rees and Gauld [11]
		de Souza [12]	Savage et al. [10]
Implementation framework		Costa and Godinho Filho [28]	Hussain and Malik [27]
		Dahlgaard et al. [47]	Shazali at al. [46]