I was chatting to a friend today and he mentioned the Triangle of Fire. This is the definition of the three things that make fires 'successful' - this being 'Heat', 'Oxygen' and 'Fuel'. It is the job of fire-fighters to remove one of these three elements to extinguish the fire - for example, pouring water on the fire to remove the heat, spraying it with CO2 to remove the Oxygen or simply removing the fuel so that it goes out.

This made me immediately think of a Lean Healthcare Triangle of Fire - with the elements being:

We are currently working on the development of Leanpad for Healthcare that will enable Healthcare organisations to quickly document Current and Future States and then communicate them and gain feedback.

Having tested it recently with representatives from a Local Health Economy (including an SHA) it got a glowing feedback on its useability when compared to Visio and Powerpoint.....so watch this space!!

If you have read our new book 'Sustaining Lean Healthcare Programmes' or if you have worked with one of our Lean Experts you will have already come across our CRITICAL(tm) Model for Sustainable Lean. CRITICAL defines the top eight reasons why organisations claim their previous improvement programmes have failed to deliver the results they expected.