TY - BOOK AU - Sarkar, Debashis TI - Building a Lean Service Enterprise: Reflections of a Lean Management Practitioner SN - 9781498779593 U1 - 658.4013 PY - 2017/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press KW - Service industries -- Management KW - Organizational Effectiveness N1 - 1. How Engaged Is Your CEO and Top Management? 2. Spend the First 90 Days to Understand the Needs of the Company 3. Should You Board the Ship? 4. Before Embarking on a Lean Effort, Pause to Understand the Type of Problem That You Are Trying to Solve 5. Just Knowing Tools Does Not Make You a Lean Change Leader 6. Know the Building Blocks 7. Influence": Least Discussed Yet the Most Important Quality of a Seasoned Lean Change Leader 8. Engagement: Where to Begin? 9. To Whom Does the Lean Change Leader Report? 10. Trigger Signs of Upcoming Change by Embedding New "Ways of Working" for the Leadership Team 11. Do You Know What Constitutes a Great Lean Team? 12. A Person Keen to Be Popular Should Not Become Involved in Lean Efforts 13. It Makes Sense to Define Lean Differently 14. How Aligned Is the Top Management on Organizational Outcomes? 15. Do You Know the Building Blocks of a Holistic Lean Transformation? 16. Do Not Forget the 15Cs of Lean Transformation 17. Let Us Not Think of Lean as a Cost-Cutting Endeavor 18. It Helps to Adopt a Quiver Approach in a Lean Transformation 19. Let a Road Map Guide Your Deployment 20. Observe, Observe, and Observe 21. Lean Need Not Necessarily Be Called Lean 22. Service Guarantee Can Be a Good Aspiration to Have in a Lean Transformation Journey 23. Getting Top Management Commitment Is Necessary but Not Sufficient 24. Creating a Sense of Urgency Is a Prerequisite for Successful Lean Deployment 25. Do Not Forget to Include Those Below Top Management 26. Is Lean Applicable in Your Organization? 27. Service Processes Are Quite Different from Those That One Sees in Manufacturing 28. Do People Know Why the Organization Is Embarking on a Lean Journey? 29. Why a Common Understanding of Service Is a Must in Lean for Service 30. Who Are the Custodians of Your Process? 31. Just Not Larger Projects 32. White Spaces: A Great Lean Opportunity 33. Does Your Organization Have a Standard Approach to Solve Problems? 34. Shun Verbosity and Long Presentations: Adopt A3 Thinking 35. What Metrics Should You Have? 36. Is Employee Attrition a Problem in Your Company? 37. Inventory in a Services Organization Can Be of Various Hues 38. The Functional Crevices Provide a Great Lean Opportunity 39. MIS Reports, MIS Reports, and More MIS Reports 40. The Role of the Lean Team Should Change over Time 41. Make Customers Service Themselves 42. Encourage Team Members to Report Problems 43. Processes Should Positively Affect the Key Stakeholder 44. Do Not Forget to Ascertain the Health of Lean Adoption 45. Embed a Regime of Reflection 46. As You Negotiate the Lean Journey, Do Not Forget Those Who Could Derail the Efforts 47. Not Only Visual Tools but Also a Holistic Visual Management System 48. It Helps to Ascertain Effectiveness of Visual Management 49. Ohno's Wastes Are Applicable to Service Organizations 50. Are You Aware of Wastes of Business Acquisition? 51. Be Careful about the Service Recovery Process 52. Multiskilling Is a Good Capacity Optimization Technique 53. Building a Pull System in a Service Enterprise 54. Know the Little-Known Law 55. Use Little's Law to Create Pull in Transaction Processing 56. Do Not Standardize All Processes in a Service Company 57. Make the Process of Cross-Selling More Efficient and Effective 58. Practice Pull-Based Sales 59. Do You Know the DEB-LOREX Model for Lean Transformation? 60. Make a Deep Assessment of Lean Enterprise Using the DEB-LOREX ER -