Author: Jim Thompson
The Lean Office: How to Use Just-in-Time Techniques to Streamline Your Office is targeted to anyone who works in an office. It shows how lean production's systems can foster and nurture employee involvement and put excitement back into continuous improvement. It provides the long-awaited tools needed to improve office productivity. Most importantly, it reduces employee stress and frustration, while improving productivity. This book demonstrates how this should happen with employees, not to employees. The Lean Office is written in an easily readable, humorous style that allows its new ideas to be absorbed in small chunks by everyone. Contents: Chapter 1: Lean Office Production; Chapter 2: Eliminating Waste; Chapter 3: Standardized Work; Chapter 4: The 5Ss; Chapter 5: Visual Management; Chapter 6: Creating the Process.
