Lean Consulting - Effective processes eliminates waste and poor service and quality

Process

Every business has processes. They tend to play a pivotal role in the completion of work (else why have them?) and yet very few businesses actually manage their processes.

Whether it’s a product or a service you supply, or both, processes are the means with which you will do it. It’s what you’ve hired your staff to do. It is vital that processes are maximised for output and accuracy.

There are many ways in which a process can fail to perform at its peak. At Lean Consulting, we specialise in indentifying and fixing:

Unnecessary rework
Non Value-added tasks
Unnecessary handoffs
Overproduction
Misinterpretation of rules & regulations
Tasks misaligned to job function

In our experience, processes tend to evolve over time as business needs change or are hastily thrown together to accommodate the urgent launch of a new product or service. How many times have you heard someone say "we'll do it like this for now and review it later"? When was the last time someone actually came back a reviewed a process in your operation?

Then there are the tasks that once had a meaning but the business and regulatory landscape has shifted so far that the tasks no longer add any value, and yet staff continue to dutifully fulfil them.

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