
Business & Management / Productivity Improvement
Most business readers have heard of the Lean principles developed for
factories—a set of tools and ideas that have enabled companies to dramatically
boost quality by reducing waste and errors. Yet until now, few have recognized
how relevant these powerful ideas are to individuals and their daily work.
Every person at a desk, drafting table, workstation, or operating table must
(like a factory) deal with the challenge of reducing the waste that creeps
into their work. The same Lean principles that have improved efciencies on
the factory oor can be just as powerful—in fact, ...