Eliminate the 3 Key Wastes to Create an efficient Lean Office Environment
By TXM Senior Consultant, Justin Tao Lean Thinking defines wastes as work that adds no value to the customer. The well-known Seven Wastes are transportation,...
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WHAT and then WHO: the Delicate Balance of Office Process Design
Office process design starts with using the lean principles to understand the current situation then develop a future state, along with a implementation...
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The Waste of Mistrust
Increasingly it seems that the assumption built in to most of our lives is that we can trust pretty much no-one. Almost every transaction we do is wrapped...
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Nine Tips to Sustain Your Lean Office
There is a lot of literature on implementing Lean in office and administrative functions and the concept is not new. However I still see relatively few...
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Top 6 Opportunities for Lean Office Improvements in your Business
As many readers of this blog will know, there are a huge range of ways in which Lean can reduce waste and improve performance in the office. Therefore...
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TXM Lean Case Study – Managing Lean Office Processes with Colour Coding
We know how important visual management and colour coding are in our Lean Enterprise. Once implemented, it allows our team to easily identify what action...
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Six Sigma (and Lean Six Sigma) vs. Lean – Which way to go?
Next to Lean, Six Sigma is probably the most popular process improvement methodology in the world. As a business starting out on the improvement journey,...
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The Ninth Waste in the Lean Office
We all know about the seven wastes and hopefully can recite them by heart. Most of us now accept that underutilised human potential is the eighth waste,...
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Lean Office – Lean For Business Process Workshop – Melbourne 12 September
TXM is pleased to present the following workshop in collaboration with our partners, Business Improvement Consultants, Roaring Success. How do you create...
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Advancing Office Productivity with 3 Lean Principles
The Lean principles are so often attached to the manufacturing of goods such as cars, white goods and furniture however when we look at and office or an...
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Getting middle management to support lean implementation
BRW March 28 of May 1, 2013 had an article written by Fiona Smith entitled "death-defying middle management." The article highlighted the report by a psychometric...
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