This paper considers the migration of lean process improvement methods from hospital systems to outpatient clinics. We review the strengths and weaknesses of a series of lean projects that were conducted in a community mental health center over a four-year period. We consider the evolution of the organization’s lean approaches and project results to identify areas of continuing research that ap...

There is a large and growing body of knowledge regarding so-called Lean best practices, including most recently in the area of program management and systems engineering. However, there is little elaboration of how these documented best practices are to be introduced to a professional workforce. One way of introducing new practices to a workforce is through the use of training workshops, but th...

Lean and agile principles are two most buzzing words around the corporate in the past few decades. The industrial sectors throughout the world are upgrading to these principles to enhance their performance lowering their operating costs. Though, these principles have been proven to be efficient in handling supply chains, a more robust strategy is developed inheriting the salient features of bo...

The paper is a research-in-progress that focuses on examining the applicability of lean principles to the crowdsourcing process. While crowdsourcing is seen as an excellent exemplar of open innovation, there is no research that has focused on the wasteful, time-consuming or bloated nature of many crowdsourcing initiatives. This paper attempts to address this gap and examine the applicability of...

In manufacturing, great gains in performance have been realized by a new production philosophy, which leads to "lean production". This new production philosophy is a generalization of such partial approaches as JIT, TQM, time-based competition, and concurrent engineering. In construction, lean production is little known. The concepts, principles and methods of lean production are reviewed, and ...

Lean was first adopted as a management technique for improving results in manufacturing environments. It is based on the 5 principles of identifying the Value to be created, mapping the Value-Stream (incremental addition of value), ensuring process Flow, orienting the process towards the Pull of the customer and finally eliminating all Waste through a process of continuous improvement. This fra...