Table 5.
The operational implementation approach
| US | Italy | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | Mean | SD | N | % | Mean | SD | |
| Daily management system index (range: 0–9) | 135 | 4.8 | 2.53 | 35 | 2.4 | 1.55 | ||
| HR index (range: 0–5) | 129 | 2.3 | 1.82 | 35 | 2.3 | 1.85 | ||
| IT index (range: 0–6) | 129 | 2.7 | 2.05 | 35 | 3.8 | 1.97 | ||
| Finance index (range: 0–3) | 130 | 2.0 | 1.07 | 35 | 1.8 | 1.11 | ||
| Lean team multi-professionalism | 68 | 14 | ||||||
| Information Technology | 32 | 47 | 7 | 50 | ||||
| Human Resources | 16 | 24 | 4 | 29 | ||||
| Finance | 20 | 29 | 3 | 21 | ||||
| Staff involvement index (range: 0–6) | 76 | 3.9 | 1.34 | 35 | 1.04 | 1.41 | ||
| Education and training index (range: 0–4) | 128 | 1.79 | 0.89 | 35 | 1.7 | 0.93 | ||
| Reward and Recognition | 293 | 23 | ||||||
| Departments | 103 | 35 | 4 | 17 | ||||
| External Organizations | 84 | 29 | 6 | 26 | ||||
| Hospital | 106 | 36 | 13 | 57 | ||||
| Number of tools reported as high or very high use (range: 0–14) | 130 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 35 | 3.3 | 3.3 | ||