Lean Office
This article covers meaning & overview of Lean Office from operations perspective.
What is Lean Office?
Lean office is defined as a cost-cutting pressures, higher customer expectations, slimmer margins and condensed lead times are challenges the majority manufacturers persistently witness during day to day transactions. Lean Enterprise is a business operating philosophy in which client value drives industrialized processes, has provided a explanation for many companies by eliminating non-value-added actions helping to trim down lead times, increase productivity and get better quality and throughput rate.
Lean is not a recent concept in the industrialized economy. For more than 25 years, Lean has been effectively implemented on the shop floor to get rid of waste and increase returns. It is only newly that companies are adopting Lean Office as a solution for productivity factor to streamline and also to eliminate waste from their office as well as administrative processes plus achieve bottom-line investments.
Consider that 60 to 80 percent of each and every one cost concerned with meeting a client demand is an administrative or non-production- linked function. Therefore, to be "Lean," the concepts should be understood, implemented and continued throughout the complete company.
Lean can impact administrative processes at each and every one levels of an organization:
Enterprise Level
Organizational Level
Departmental Level
Individual Level
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