Office Kaizen: Transforming Office Operations into a Strategic Competitive Advantage
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (590 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004CFB7FQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Lareau’s previous experience includes: Vice President of New Product Development and Delivery at IMR Consulting, Director of Lean Manufacturing at ITT Components Group, Director of Lean Operations & Special Projects for General Dynamics Missiles and Electronics Group and Internal Process Improvement and SPC Consultant for Ford. in Applied Psychology from The Catholic University of America and his M.A. in Clinical Psyc
Office Kaizen or Kaizen Office This book should have been titled "Kaizen Office". The title and book description are somewhat misleading. The book is not about how to apply Kaizan techniques to the office environment to remove waste with actionable instructions and examples. The book is actually about how a company should be structured to achieve "continuous improvement". It begins with the installation of an Executive Steering Co. Fills a serious Gap ACC After nearly 4 years experience as a 6 Sigma Black-belt leading projects centered on the commercial side of a Fortune-500 enterprise---sales, marketing, marketing services, customer service, HR, etc.-I was pleased to see the emphasis on implementation tactics at the level where most of the detailed work of an organization gets done. It fills the gap left by bigger programs.It is not so much a "How to. A Customer said Filled With Munda. In this book, as well as "Lean Leadership: From Chaos to Carrots to Commitment," William Lareau provides some of the rudimentary tools and theories of Lean practices. However, both books fall seriously short of providing the comprehensive, straight-forward lean techniques and philosophies that both management and their employees require to introduce, improve and sustain lean processes over the long-t
Some progressive companies are seeing improvements in their office environments through the use of Office Kaizen, which emphasizes making continuous improvements over the long haul. Most companies find it difficult to reduce costs in the office without noticeable sacrifices in performance. Office Kaizen: Transforming Office Operations Into a Strategic Competitive Advantage presents a unified, consistent approach that enables businesses to establish a strategic competitive advantage by significantly improving the efficiency, quality and productivity of their office and administrative processes.. Many business functions have been significantly improved through the use of a variety of quality techniques, but for the most part office and administrative functions have not kept pace
in Clinical Psychology from Loyola College, Baltimore. Lareau’s previous experience includes: Vice President of New Product Development and Delivery at IMR Consulting, Director of Lean Manufacturing at ITT Components Group, Director of Lean Operations & Special Projects for General Dynamics Missiles and Electronics Group and Internal Process Improvement and SPC Consultant for Ford. in Applied Psychology from The Catholic University of America and his M.A. . He received his Ph.D. About the Author William Lareau is a co-owner of Implementation Services, LLC, which is a management consulting firm specializing in implementation