CHAPTER 10: USING LEAN APPROACHES FOR YOUR LEAN PROJECT AUDIT/REVIEW
Introduction
The use of lean thinking techniques to deliver internal and external audits, or assurance reviews of lean projects, has a number of advantages including:
1. Leading by example.
2. Providing a learning environment and a test bed for auditors to try out lean thinking.
3. Focusing on real stakeholder needs.
4. Becoming more commercial by focusing on what is important to the end customer.
5. Getting to the root causes of issues, rather than making recommendations that merely fix a symptom of the problem.
6. Reducing wasteful audits and reporting and thereby reducing costs.
7. Becoming more effective in providing compliance, whilst also highlighting issues that may reduce ...
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