Lean Six Sigma Healthcare Professional interviewed on B901 Podcast

Jan. 17, 2011 - PRLog -- Jason Kilgore author of the book, The Elegant Process was interviewed on the Business901 podcast. Host of the pager Dager says, "I discovered that in 2008, Jason transitioned to Healthcare after 15 successful years in the automotive industry. It made for a great topic as he discussed his transition."

Jason Kilgore is a Business Process Manager for Riverside Health System in Newport News, Virginia, where he has utilized his expertise in Project Management, Lean, and Six Sigma (Black Belt) to streamline processes, saving millions of dollars annually. In 2008, Jason transitioned to healthcare after 15 successful years in the automotive industry. While in the automotive sector, Jason filed for over 60 US and global patents as a design engineer, led multiple Six Sigma projects as a Black Belt, and implemented lean concepts in his role as a manufacturing manager.

Jason’s transition to healthcare came from a desire to expand the use of Lean and Six Sigma to a more service-based, people-focused industry. Riverside, with 8,000 employees, 5 hospitals, and 350 physicians in over 100 facilities, was a perfect fit. Currently, Jason leads cost-reduction and quality-improvement projects in the areas of billing and accounts receivable, purchasing and accounts payable, worker productivity, and patient flow.

In his book The Elegant Process, Jason demonstrates his value-based approach to simultaneously achieving quality and financial goals through process improvement and optimization. The Elegant Process shares Jason’s straightforward method for enhancing quality and reducing costs within any business setting by redesigning the systems that contribute to lackluster results.

Jason has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a MBA with a concentration in finance. He is certified in Lean methods through the University of Michigan and is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.

You can listen to the podcast by clicking on the Podcast link on the right or download the podcast from the Business901 Itunes store. Also available is a Transcription of the podcast.

About Joe Dager: Business901 provides direction in areas such as Lean Six Sigma Marketing and Achieving Expert Status. Business901 has designed their services and product offerings so that they are implementable systems that work in the real, not enough time, not enough people world we operate in. We provide tools that simplify the marketing process, not complicate it. Joe, the owner of Business901 is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and author of the Lean Marketing House and Marketing with A3.

If you visit the Business901.com website, you can download and introduction to Lean Marketing Concepts in a 30-page eBook format. Dager’s experience includes numerous start-ups, several turnarounds in variety of industries to include manufacturing, retail, and professional services to include marketing.

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Joe Dager takes his process thinking of over thirty years in marketing within a wide variety of industries and applies it through Lean Marketing Concepts. He has owned and operated companies involved in retail, manufacturing and professional services that include several turnarounds and growth companies. Joe is president of Business901, a firm specializing in bringing the continuous improvement process to the sales and marketing arena.

Joe is the author of the Marketing with Lean Series which includes the Lean Marketing House and Marketing with A3 both available through Amazon and other online bookstores.