Why Handoffs Hurt

by Mark Graban on June 13, 2006 · 0 comments

Seth’s Blog: My breakfast was right

From Seth Godin:

Room service just arrived, and my insanely complex OCD breakfast was exactly the way I ordered it. This was possibly a first.

Then I discovered the reason. The person who brought it to my room was the very same person who assembled it.

Boy that was obvious.

I wonder if the same person also took the order on the phone? I bet they did. Every time you have a handoff in a process, that’s an opportunity for miscommunications and errors. It’s not always practical to have one person take ownership of the entire process and the end product, but it can help your quality.

Mark Graban 2011 Smaller Why Handoffs Hurt leanAbout LeanBlog.org: Mark Graban is a consultant, author, and speaker in the “lean healthcare” methodology. Mark is author of the Shingo Award-winning book Lean Hospitals and the upcoming book Healthcare Kaizen. He is also the Chief Improvement Officer for the technology startup KaiNexus.


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