Dr. Jake Taylor Jacobs
speaker
1,094 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 24 Feb
Dr. Jake Taylor Jacobs’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's where the surgeons are.
So they invest in OR scheduling software.
They bring in consultants, optimize turnover times.
They implement lean processes for room setup and they get some gains, maybe five, 10% of improvement, but then they hit a wall.
The wall that everyone hits every single time, a ceiling that can't break through no matter what they try.
You want to know why?
It's because the OR is the downstream.
You cannot optimize downstream performance when the upstream constraints is unaddressed.
Think about it like a river.
The OR is where the river flows into the ocean.
That's where you see results.
But SPD is upstream.
It's where the water comes from.
If there's a dam upstream and if there's a constraint blocking the flow, it doesn't matter how wide you make the river bed downstream.
The water isn't going to come.
And SPD is that constraint.
When instruments aren't ready, cases start late.
When trays are incomplete, surgeons wait.
When quality issues slip through, patient safety is compromised.
When the OR can't trust SPD, they build workarounds that consume resources and create friction.
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