Recap of Lean Leader Meeting at Bahri Dental Group on June 20th

Check out some action shots from Lean Jax's Lean Leader Meeting on June 20, 2024, hosted by Dr. Sami Bahri & the Bahri Dental Group--Jacksonville's finest lean culture and implementation. It's not even close, folks. First Coast Leansters that are not involved with Lean Jax, you might as well try Agile. 😂 As Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog always says, "I keed, I keed! Agile is for me to ..... on, Conan!"

Dr. Bahri is one of the world's most distinguished lean leaders, an esteemed author, Harvard lecturer & trailblazer in applying lean principles to dental operations; Bahri Dental Group is an exemplary lean enterprise.

Dr. Bahri started the meeting with an inspiring presentation outlining how the dental practice leveraged lean principles & methods to transform its' operations from a traditional batch and queue environment--batching similar treatments together to avoid changeovers--to "one patient flow"-- “providing patients with the correct treatment they need, when they need it, and the right quantity that they need it, while eliminating anything that interrupts or delays this flow."

This transformation resulted in some staggering improvements:

✅Eliminating all setups and patient wait time.

✅Slashing overall patient lead time by 95%

✅Reducing the number of patient visits for a full mouth treatment by 57%

✅Increasing the number of available weekly hours for dentists to treat patients by by 82%

Dr. Bahri then teamed up with the practice's patient flow manager, Candice Johnson (another exceptional lean leader), to showcase a thriving lean culture in action.

Lean Jax’s Lean Leader Meetings

Lean leader meetings like this one provide an invaluable forum for leaders from a wide-array of organizations to directly observe lean cultures, build relationships, share knowledge & resources, celebrate successes & tackle challenges together, all in the shared pursuit of excellence through continuous improvement. Locals, you can't receive these opportunities outside of Lean Jax. You may see imitators, but we are the real thing. Our members strive to be the 5% that master lean. We only select organizations that find anything less than sustained excellence--unacceptable! Is that you?

Lean Jax is dedicated to helping Northeast Florida (I’ll travel if you have snacks i'm reimbursed me for airfare and/or gas) organizations thrive with lean thinking! We can help you be winners like Dr. Bahri, Candice Johnson, Triumph, Conan, Sonia, Matt (great podcast), James Bussell 😀, Wes Lee Wisniewski (inside joke) and #TaylorSwift.