Lean Office - Productivity Improvements for the Office

“Lean out” your office using proven manufacturing techniques to increase productivity and efficiency. Insyte’s extensive experience with lean methodologies can help you get more office work done faster — with fewer errors.

Opportunities

Reduce order processing time
Increase staff capacity and throughput
Achieve tighter inventory control
Improve teamwork and productivity
Reduce errors and chaos
Establish a problem solving culture
Clearly define roles and responsibilities
Integrate processes to better utilize your existing or new business system

Fast paced changes in the marketplace are placing increased demands on internal business processes. Without improvements your company can fall behind. Approximately 75% of costs are related to administrative or non-production functions, making the office an ideal place to look for savings and improved efficiencies using lean principles.

A successful lean transformation in the office is a “bottoms up” approach of making improvements that eliminate waste and improve the speed and efficiency in handling transactions. Lean tools that can be applied to an office environment include:

Workplace Organization (5S)
Office Layout
Visual Systems
Batch Size Reduction
Standardized Work
Quality at the Source
Teams
Point of Use Storage

The application of lean tools can provide benefits at all levels of an organization:

Company Level:

Streamline & accelerate processes that involve external customers such as order entry, customer service, AP/AR, new product development, to name a few.

Departmental Levels:

Focus on internal customer requirements and their definition of value, improve communication and cross-functional cooperation, and reduce activities that add time but little value.

Individual Level:

Reduce paperwork, improve individual efficiency, and define roles and responsibilities which best support the overall objectives of the entire office.

The Insyte Consulting Advantage

Managers are often to close to the issues that are causing problems in the office. Insyte can offer an outside perspective and provide the expertise to identify and resolve these issues. We can help you create a unified vision of change that leads to lasting improvement in your office.

Old Adage: “Knowledge is power”

Competitive Corollary: “Power is structured access to knowledge”

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