The Lean Office Pocket Guide: Tools for the Elimination of Waste in Administrative Areas!
- 1h 24m
- Don Tapping
- MCS Media, Inc.
- 2005
The Lean Office has finally arrived! And more importantly many of the practices documented in this little pocket guide will allow any organization - any industry - to implement the tools necessary to achieve a Lean Office. Lean Office tools such as 5S, Data Capture, Predictable Output, Office File System, Value Stream Mapping, Continuous Flow, Heijunka, Takt Time, plus 15 others will be thoroughly explained so your office can begin to obtain the results of improving flow, reducing transactional costs, reducing paper work, improving morale, and improving the bottom-line. The information is presented in such a format that you will have the right tool, at the right time, with the right administrative adaptation.
The essential lean tools are all here, functionally described and illustrated for ease of adaptation and usage to:
- Identify and eliminate process waste and variation quickly and efficiently in any office environment.
- Increase participation and communication at all levels of the organization.
- Standardize best processes as the basis for improvement.
- What Lean tools will have the most impact
- Create a favorable Lean environment so that a continuous improvement culture will evolve.
In this Book
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5S Workplace Organization and Standardization
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Business Case for Lean
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Continuous Flow
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Cycle Time
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Data Collection Techniques
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Document Tagging
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Heijunka—Leveling
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Interruptions and Random Arrivals
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Just-in-Time (JIT)
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Kaizen Events
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Kanbans for Office Supplies
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Lean Metrics
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Lean Office Assessment
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Lean Reporting and Communications
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Office File System
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Office Layout—U-shaped
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Pitch
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Predictable Output
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Problem-Solving
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Pull Systems
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Resistance to Change
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Runners
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Standard Work
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Takt Time
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The Goal Card
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Value Stream Mapping
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Visual Controls
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Waste
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Work Load Balancing
