Comments on: Be Lean – Automate Business Processes to Eliminate Waste and Increase Productivity http://www.processflows.co.uk/blog/2009/08/05/be-lean-automate-business-processes-to-eliminate-waste-and-increase-productivity/ Business Process Automation Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:21:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ken Usman-Smith http://www.processflows.co.uk/blog/2009/08/05/be-lean-automate-business-processes-to-eliminate-waste-and-increase-productivity/#comment-1335 ken Usman-Smith Sat, 08 May 2010 23:06:23 +0000 http://www.processflows.co.uk/businessblog/?p=1726#comment-1335 The use of Lean in Local Government back office has been accelerating over the last 3 years. In Rochdale it has now taken on more urgency, as we face the huge funding cuts that require more for less. We are calling it 'Working Smarter' to avoid the effect BPR has on management meetings as they sitch off from a jargon overload. The program link's nicely with the industrial back ground that gave Business Improvement Training its tool kit. The particular Programme in use funded from the LSC to deliver an NVQ is designed to make measurable improvements in two Gershon work streams: Corporate “back office” functions - making the functions more efficient and achieving best practice consistently and rapidly Productive time - making the process more efficient and developing waste free processes. This emphasises the value of this field to Local Government and its aims and objective will sound familiar. And as the funding stream ends this July there is a need to keep this investment in capacity going. 1. Improve Organisational Performance 2. Teams identified to analyse and improve key processes 3. By applying lean techniques 4. Utilising the NVQ in Business Improvement Techniques 5. Making measurable improvements of Quality, Cost & Delivery to their own processes Sustainability Give a wide understanding of improvement techniques to a critical mass of people Lean Culture Focused on reducing; non value added activities, waste and variation Utilising the Knowledge to repeat the process So what does Lean do for you? Focus on improving the end-to-end process Redesign work to eliminate all forms of waste Create detailed, standardised processes Resolve problems by dealing with their root cause Its a whole life continous improvement journey that will ceate a paradigm shift in your staff and managers, and frankly if you dont explore it, you will not survive the coming storm. The use of Lean in Local Government back office has been accelerating over the last 3 years. In Rochdale it has now taken on more urgency, as we face the huge funding cuts that require more for less.

We are calling it ‘Working Smarter’ to avoid the effect BPR has on management meetings as they sitch off from a jargon overload.

The program link’s nicely with the industrial back ground that gave Business Improvement Training its tool kit.

The particular Programme in use funded from the LSC to deliver an NVQ is designed to make measurable improvements in two Gershon work streams:

Corporate “back office” functions – making the functions more efficient and achieving best practice consistently and rapidly

Productive time – making the process more efficient and developing waste free processes.

This emphasises the value of this field to Local Government and its aims and objective will sound familiar. And as the funding stream ends this July there is a need to keep this investment in capacity going.

1. Improve Organisational Performance
2. Teams identified to analyse and improve key processes
3. By applying lean techniques
4. Utilising the NVQ in Business Improvement Techniques
5. Making measurable improvements of Quality, Cost & Delivery to their own processes

Sustainability
Give a wide understanding of improvement techniques to a critical mass of people

Lean Culture
Focused on reducing; non value added activities, waste and variation
Utilising the Knowledge to repeat the process

So what does Lean do for you?

Focus on improving the end-to-end process
Redesign work to eliminate all forms of waste
Create detailed, standardised processes
Resolve problems by dealing with their root cause

Its a whole life continous improvement journey that will ceate a paradigm shift in your staff and managers, and frankly if you dont explore it, you will not survive the coming storm.

]]> By: MCP UK http://www.processflows.co.uk/blog/2009/08/05/be-lean-automate-business-processes-to-eliminate-waste-and-increase-productivity/#comment-403 MCP UK Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:26:07 +0000 http://www.processflows.co.uk/businessblog/?p=1726#comment-403 Thanks for the informative post!.Just a quick comment on your first key approach of Lean Manufacturing that sometimes many companies make the mistake of producing too early which creates waste by not following lean principles. Early production adds to the inventory levels and adds time to the cash-to-cash cycle. If the orders produced early cannot be shipped , they must sit around taking up valuable space, reducing the financial return on the facility investment which also can be contained with good maintenance training. Thanks for the informative post!.Just a quick comment on your first key approach of Lean Manufacturing that sometimes many companies make the mistake of producing too early which creates waste by not following lean principles. Early production adds to the inventory levels and adds time to the cash-to-cash cycle. If the orders produced early cannot be shipped , they must sit around taking up valuable space, reducing the financial return on the facility investment which also can be contained with good maintenance training.

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