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A CEO shows us the Obeya room in his hospital

A CEO shows us the Obeya room in his hospital

Carlos Frederico Pinto
November 15, 2017

VIDEO - The CEO of a cancer center in Brazil gives us a tour of the their obeya room, taking us through their strategy deployment and explaining how it supports their mission of reducing the burden of cancer.


Gemba guide: Carlos Frederico Pinto, CEO, Instituto de Oncologia do Vale - São José dos Campos, Brazil


Our obeya is something of a "living room" - it constantly evolves as the problems we face change. It is from the "Green Room" that we monitor our performance, track metrics, devise our strategy and then deploy it across the business.

Check out the video below, in which I show you the visual management boards we use and explain how the room works.


THE GEMBA GUIDE

Carlos Frederico Pinto photograph
Carlos Frederico Pinto is the CEO of Instituto de Oncologia do Vale, in Brazil

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