Aravind eye clinics
Medical science has achieved some amazing breakthroughs in terms of innovation, pushing the frontiers of surgery , drug therapy, transplant technology and a host of other research fields to enable more of us to live healthy and dignified lives. Impressive though such radical innovation is, we shouldn’t forget that a great deal can be achieved through more modest change but systematically applied. That’s the story of the car industry, for example, where the most successful performer in terms of productivity and sales has been Toyota-a company which has built its strength on systematic and largely incremental production system in innovation. The demonstrable and continuing success of applying the Toyota production system in everything it does has helped it build strong foundations on which more radical developments – like the Prius hybrid car – can be explored.
In the healthcare area one of the powerful examples of such systematic attention to the small stuff which has les led to a significant impact are the Aravind eye clinics in India. Back in 1976 the head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Government Medical College in Madurai , Dr G. Venkataswamy, retired. Dr V ( as he is popularly to ) had worked for many years on providing eye care – eye tests, glasses, cataract operations, etc. – in rural communities and rather than give this up and potter around his garden he decided to use his retirement time to carry the work on. He provides an excellent example of the principle that there is no age limit to entrepreneurship – the key is passion, energy, enthusiasm and a clear sense of what he wanted to achieve. In his case it was nothing less than eliminating unnecessary blindness in his home state of Tamil Nadu – and perhaps after that, across India itself.
Aravind eye clinics
Medical science has achieved some amazing breakthroughs in terms of innovation, pushing the frontiers of surgery , drug therapy, transplant technology and a host of other research fields to enable more of us to live healthy and dignified lives. Impressive though such radical innovation is, we shouldn’t forget that a great deal can be achieved through more modest change but systematically applied. That’s the story of the car industry, for example, where the most successful performer in terms of productivity and sales has been Toyota-a company which has built its strength on systematic and largely incremental production system in innovation. The demonstrable and continuing success of applying the Toyota production system in everything it does has helped it build strong foundations on which more radical developments – like the Prius hybrid car – can be explored.
In the healthcare area one of the powerful examples of such systematic attention to the small stuff which has les led to a significant impact are the Aravind eye clinics in India. Back in 1976 the head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Government Medical College in Madurai , Dr G. Venkataswamy, retired. Dr V ( as he is popularly to ) had worked for many years on providing eye care – eye tests, glasses, cataract operations, etc. – in rural communities and rather than give this up and potter around his garden he decided to use his retirement time to carry the work on. He provides an excellent example of the principle that there is no age limit to entrepreneurship – the key is passion, energy, enthusiasm and a clear sense of what he wanted to achieve. In his case it was nothing less than eliminating unnecessary blindness in his home state of Tamil Nadu – and perhaps after that, across India itself.
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