One A3 for One Real Bottleneck
Frame a hospital operations bottleneck as an A3 problem with evidence, cause, countermeasure, and follow-up.
A3 is disciplined thinking An A3 is useful because it links the current condition to a tested countermeasure. The page should tell a story: the measurable gap, why it matters, what the process currently does, what root cause is most likely, what change will be tried, and how the team will learn. Why hospital projects need it Hospitals are full of interdependent bottlenecks. Access, discharge, authorizations, bed cleaning, sterile processing, and transport all cross department boundaries. Without a shared A3, each department optimizes its own slice and the whole patient journey may not improve. What good looks like Use one…
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