Current products in the market are customer oriented. Customers demand for low priced products in minimum possible time of production. To achieve competitiveness and to stay ahead in the business, manufacturers adopt lean manufacturing strategies. Lean principles are focused on elimination of wastes, streamlining the processes there by reducing cost and product delivery time. Lean concepts are ...

Lean service operations and lean management are of vital importance for all providers as much manufacturers. Unfortunately, most universities need to be made aware the concept lean. However, they can benefit from in their areas, such admissions, administration research funds, hiring, nearly any functional area where multi-step processes simplified focused on needs users served by organization. ...

Lean Management and Six Sigma are nowadays applied not only to the manufacturing industry but also to service industry and public administration. The manifold variables affecting the Health Care system minimize the effect of a narrow Lean intervention. Therefore, this paper aims to discuss a comprehensive, system-based approach to achieve a factual holistic optimization of patient flows. This p...

The widespread gap between evidence and practice for clinical and preventive services argues for a deeper understanding of effective quality improvement (QI) and system change. Using implementation and system redesign sciences, we have developed and used an effective strategy to enable robust implementation of QI initiatives, including clinical practice bundles, within a health care setting. Ou...

Many organizations have struggled over the past few decades with a blizzard of process improvement methodologies such as Total Quality Management (TQM), Kaizen, JIT Production, and Re-Engineering. These operations are understandably leery of adopting new methodologies given their past experience, especially with a focus on return on investments and leveraging existing practices. This article ex...

Lean methodologies have been applied in many industries to reduce waste. We applied Lean techniques to redesign laboratory workstations with the aim of reducing the number of times employees must leave their workstations to complete their tasks. At baseline in 68 workflows (aggregates or sequence of process steps) studied, 251 (38%) of 664 tasks required workers to walk away from their workstat...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through its Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) research team has been conducting research and facilitating enterprise-level transformations in large complex sociotechnical enterprises for over fifteen years. These enterprises have spanned a broad base of industries and governmental organizations including aerospace, automotive, electronics, health ...

Purpose – This paper addresses the most common pain points in agile software development. Methodology/Approach – Many experts agree that agile software development methodologies make good use of best practices – but how can they be measured quantitatively? Agile literature provides surprises for software measurement professionals: for instance, time-consuming size measurement approaches are pro...