If you’re looking for a way to streamline operations at your healthcare facility, look to Enna. Leaders in Kaizen and Lean Processes training, we can help you to obtain the training you need in order to effectively improve your operations both through any of our training packages. But even more than classroom training, we offer a once-in-a-lifetime chance to travel with your management team to the place where Kaizen theory all began – Japan.

Originally developed for use by Toyota, Kaizen processes have proven useful in a variety of manufacturing and other process-driven businesses, including healthcare. Enna’s Lean Healthcare Japan tours are extremely enlightening experiences that demonstrate how everything from resource management to patient scheduling can be streamlined using Lean management techniques, without sacrificing quality of care. On a healthcare tour, you will be shown through some of Japan’s top medical facilities and have the chance to meet hospital administration who can walk you through every element of applying Kaizen to your own place of care. Your tour will also run through methods for developing your hospital’s leadership team in order to get employee support from every level of your organization. You will be shown how to get your physicians to support the program, as well, along with methods for value stream mapping, standardizing clinical work, and ensuring clinical safety and quality.

Combining your tour with a Factory Tour

Each of Enna’s Japan Lean Management Trips includes a visit to Toyota’s manufacturing facility to see where Kaizen all began, why, and how it works. Not only will you have the chance to see how Kaizen began and evolved, but you will have the opportunity to interact directly with the leaders at Toyota who put those methods in place. You will have the chance to ask questions, and to get hands-on with Lean processes so that you can see, directly, how all of the pieces of the Kaizen framework fit together.

Your overall tour is completely customizable, and many Enna tour-takers choose to combine their healthcare tours with Lean Japan Factory Tours that cover several major automotive and electronics manufacturing facilities, in addition to the healthcare facilities they visit. This broad Lean perspective will help you to better understand how all of the concepts you will be learning fit together, and how universal the concepts are across multiple industries.

These Japan tours are not all work, however. We want you to have the chance to enjoy some of the sights and the culture while you are on this epic Lean adventure. Enna will manage all of your travel arrangements, including transportation from your place of origin to Japan, your transportation around Japan, and some entertainment during your visit. Japan’s culture is rich and varied, and we want to make sure that your understanding of the culture includes the chance to enjoy some of the food, art, and traditions that Japan has to offer.

Space in each tour is very limited, and tours are currently only offered twice a year. Reserve your space, today!