Value Stream Management for the Lean Office: Eight Steps to Planning, Mapping, and Sustaining Lean Improvements in Administrative Areas by Don Tapping, Tom Shuker, Don Shuker, Tom Shuker

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Bring Lean Improvements to the Administrative Areas of Your Organization!

Extending their eight-step process to the realization of a lean office, Tapping and Shuker use a customer service case studyto illustrate the effectiveness of the value stream storyboard.This popular volume provides organizations with a proven system for implementing lean principles in the office. In addition to providing a thorough overview of basic lean concepts, this book details methods for identifying the administrative activities in need of attention. To address these, it applies the eight-step process for removing waste and reorganizing workflow. Accompanying the book is a CD containing a lean assessment tool, a storyboard template, charts, a team charter, and worksheets.

BONUS CD! Along with this book you receive a CD containing a lean assessment tool, a storyboard template, useful charts, a team charter, forms, reports, and worksheets!

Product Details

• ISBN: 1563272466
  
• ISBN-13: 9781563272462
• Format: Textbook Paperback, 171pp
• Publisher: Productivity Pr
• Pub. Date: February 2003
• Edition Description: Book & CD-ROM
• Edition Number: 1
• Sales Rank: 27,459

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