Leanness Plus Agility = Leagility

This chapter examines the literature on leagility, which is largely premised on manufacturing examples. Here we consider how to bring together lean and agile, two improvement paradigms, to provide an approach that is useful for the (re)design of patient pathways. The chapter explores how decoupling points (DPs) have been used within supply chain design and we propose how these concept can be used in healthcare. We provide a review of the limited literature on leagility in healthcare and propose a conceptual framework where lean, agile and leagile may be used to help deliver seamless healthcare services and improve the design of patient care pathways.

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