Learning About and Identifying Waste in Offices (With Links to Excel Worksheets!)

Learning About and Identifying Waste in Offices (With Links to Excel Worksheets!) provides a practical approach to educate and communicate employees on the various types of wastes that may exist in their processes as well as provide guidance in possible ways to eliminate those wastes. Subsequently, individuals and teams can work to eliminate those specific wastes through Kaizen or Rapid Improvement Events. The purpose of this book is to provide:

1. A standard communication platform for defining the 12 wastes for an individual as well as a team
2. EXAMPLES of organizational waste that may “trigger” ideas of wasteful processes in your facility
3. Questions to help DETECT wastes in current processes
4. Suggestions of Lean and Six Sigma methods to ELIMINATE wastes
5. Innovative ways to conduct a Waste Walk
6. An example of a Waste Audit and Waste Walk
7. Space in the book to document current wasteful processes as well as ideas for eliminating those wastes
8. Definitions for the basic Lean and Six Sigma tools
9. A case study on how one organization used the simple concept of waste to engage employees in their Lean journey
10. Dropbox file links to the various Excel Worksheets (i.e., Waste Walk, Waste Audit, etc.)

It is with great pleasure to present Learning About and Identifying Waste in Offices to all types of organizations to further provide assistance to not only reduce wastes (and costs), but at the same time improve the cost, quality, and delivery of products and services. While your organization is likely aggressively using a variety of ways to improve processes and reduce costs, we believe that learning about and identifying wastes in this format will assist this endeavor.