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23/02/2014 By Tim Manning

Standard Work in Lean Services – proceed with caution

Standard Work plays quite a significant role in Lean practice.  But in the wrong hands it can do a lot of damage. Standardisation is very appealing, particularly to managers.  They tend to like uniformity, a sense of order – doing everything in the same way.  It makes their  life easier. As an improvement technique, standard […]

Filed Under: service design Tagged With: lean, service design, standard-work, standardisation, variation-in-demand

Wise Words

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

All Posts

  • Business Capability Modelling 26/03/2018
  • So who is the Design Lead on your project ? 15/03/2014
  • Standard Work in Lean Services – proceed with caution 23/02/2014
  • Open data and service design 30/10/2013
  • Universal Credit – at least they stopped digging 09/09/2013
  • Putting the thinking back into Lean 03/09/2013
  • Setting meaningful performance targets 30/06/2013
  • Making good sourcing decisions 25/03/2013
  • Supplier Relationship Management in the Public Sector 06/12/2012
  • Shared Services in the Public Sector 23/10/2012
  • Harnessing the power of User Innovation 27/09/2012
  • BPR Revisited 06/09/2012
  • Major Project Assurance in the Public Sector 09/05/2012
  • Rural Payments Agency – avoiding the mistakes of the past 12/03/2012
  • Bringing some clarity to service design 03/03/2012

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