Is your email inbox jammed with unread emails, overdue actions, unanswered or missing communications?  Your email folders burdensome, cluttered complicated and confusing?This clutter robs you of productivity, decreases business agility, and manifests as stress and overwhelm, as well as many hours outside of work scrambling to clean up…See More

Are you willing to conquer them?If you are familiar with Lean Office the exercise outlined below will make immediate sense; if not, you might check out a series of posts found here, or just jump right in.There are 7 deadly wastes common to administrative, operational and transactional business processes in “the office”. They include wasted talent, inventory, motion, waiting, over production, over…See More

Understanding and ruthlessly eliminating muda, i.e.,” waste” is a key concept in Lean Office Methodology.  In the introduction to this series we highlighted 7 forms of “muda” or waste common to the office. The first letter of each of…See More