Lean Administration - Case Studies in Leadership and Improvement

List of contents

Foreword
Introduction
Section I: Leadership, Organization, and Training
Chapter One
HUI Expands Self-Directed Teaming to the Office
Chapter Two
Steelcase: Learning How to Implement Customer-Focused,
Enterprise-Wide Lean
Section II: Improving Processes
Chapter Three
Lean Goes Beyond the Production Floor
Chapter Four
Lean Office Events — Priceless Knowledge, Team Solutions
Chapter Five
Lean Success in an Administrative Environment
Chapter Six
Lean Office: Mapping Your Way to Change
Chapter Seven
Elgin Sweeper Co. Employees Clear a Path Toward Lean
Operations with Their Lean Enterprise System
Section III: Lean in Healthcare
Chapter Eight
Metamorphosis: Healthcare’s Ongoing Transformation

Chapter Nine
“The Calling:” St. Vincent Hospice
Index

About the author

AME - Association for,

Summary

AME's Target Magazine has a well-established reputation for detailed case studies of companies adopting lean strategies. These case studies are now available in a well-organized Enterprise Excellence Series, to tap the ongoing desire for information about what other companies are doing to implement lean.
To satisfy the growing interest in applying lean to non-manufacturing operations, this first volume of the series covers the implementation of lean to administrative and office applications.
Highlights include:

Practical, in-depth description of lean office implementations, most of which have not been described in other publications.

Responds to reader desire for real-world lean office information.

Case Studies are categorized in three areas: Leadership, Organization and Training; Improving Processes; and Lean in Healthcare, making it easy to track down the type of information desired.

Product details

• Assisted by: AME - Association for (Editor), Manfacturing Excellence AME - Association for (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2023
• EAN: 9781138438873
• ISBN: 978-1-138-43887-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Weight: 326 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Production & Operations Management, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Manufacturing, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Motivational, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Quality Control, Management: leadership & motivation, Management: leadership and motivation, Other manufacturing technologies, Production & quality control management, Production and quality control management