The types of waste (5): Wrong and insufficient information flows
In the indirect areas of the company, information is the product that is worked with. Incorrect, missing or outdated information is often the cause of waste and extra work. The superfluous transport of information – which we all know in the form …
The types of waste (4): waiting and searching times
Everyone knows this from the private sector and tries to avoid it: waiting and searching times. It is not without reason that we make appointments with the doctor or office in the hope that it will be our turn without long waiting …
Lean management in construction
Lean and humane construction – a contribution by Kathrin Saheb on the blog on cybernetic construction project management http://www.k-bpm.de/ …
The types of waste (3): movement
Of course, movement in itself is not wasteful, but if work processes are interrupted or delayed, this also counts as a type of waste. How often do you experience in offices that you have to walk a long way to get to …
The types of waste (2): work supplies
What are (too high) inventories in production are in administrative areas the work stocks. Orders, invoices, purchase orders… everything that is left lying around and piling up is considered waste. With invoices, this is obvious at first glance: the later I send …
The types of waste (1): overproduction or reactive power
Logically we consider it wasteful to produce things that are not needed – a well-known example of this is the EU – Butterberg. But what about the indirect areas? The overproduction does not catch the eye and does not clog up storage …
Lean Administration Applied: The Recruitment Process (Part 2)
What happens now? As I said, the joint recording of the actual lived process already provides for some ‘aha effects’: often here it is understood first of all what the colleagues are doing and what they actually need for their work. Now …
Lean Administration Survey
Last year, Saheb Consulting conducted a company survey on the subject of ‘lean administration’. The aim of the survey was to show what benefits are associated with the implementation and where the greatest obstacles lie. 60 companies took part. The results are …
Lean Administration Applied: The Recruitment Process (Part 1)
Lean Administration Applied: The Recruitment Process (Part 1) In view of the looming shortage of skilled workers, many companies are stepping up their efforts to attract interesting candidates. What is striking is that after the first contact, hardly any attention is paid …
Why do you need the types of waste?
The question is asked again and again: what is the need for classification by type of waste? You can also discover where there is waste. That is of course correct in principle. But the categorization helps us – like so much in …
Lean Administration – the underestimated management approach
Studies on how much waste can be found in German offices appear at regular intervals. In addition to the Fraunhofer Lean Office study, another survey among 110 medium-sized companies comes to the conclusion that employees spend more than 40 percent of their working …
To the book
The book ‘Lean Administration step by step’ is aimed at specialists and executives who want to apply lean in the indirect areas of the company or in service. It is intended as a practical manual and describes the implementation process step by …
