Value Analysis 201: The 5 Why's of Value Analysis – An Introduction

By AHRMM

Lean thinking continues to emerge and embed its ideas into our traditional ways of thinking about Value Analysis and Healthcare. In lean thinking, the thought is to ask “why” five times to get to the root cause of an issue.

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