Lean -- a strategy for eliminating the waste involved in delivering a service to customer -- is a powerful tool for improving efficiency and employee productivity, especially when revenue is scarce. This paper describes the Lean process and breaks it down into three main steps: planning a Lean initiative, executing a Lean event, and following up. The process can and should be repeated over and over as a fundamental part of the organization's management, as eliminating waste is not a "one and done" process.

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• Publication date: January 2010
• Author: Shayne Kavanagh