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Lean services is the application of

HMRC.[2]

History

Definition of "Service": see Service, Business Service and/or Service Economics. Lean Services history, see Lean manufacturing.

Lean manufacturing and Services, contrasted by Levitt; "Manufacturing looks for solutions inside the very tasks to be done... Service looks for solutions in the performer of the task." (T.Levitt, Production-Line Approach to Service, Harvard Business Review, September 1972).[3]

Method

Underlying method; Lean manufacturing.

Bicheno & Holweg provides an adapted view on waste for the method ("waste", see Lean manufacturing, waste and The Toyota Way, principle 2):[4][page needed]

  1. Delay on the part of customers waiting for service, for delivery, in queues, for response, not arriving as promised.
  2. Duplication. Having to re-enter data, repeat details on forms, copy information across, answer queries from several sources within the same organisation.
  3. Unnecessary Movement. Queuing several times, lack of one-stop, poor ergonomics in the service encounter.
  4. Unclear communication, and the wastes of seeking clarification, confusion over product or service use, wasting time finding a location that may result in misuse or duplication.
  5. Incorrect inventory. Being out-of-stock, unable to get exactly what was required, substitute products or services.
  6. An opportunity lost to retain or win customers, a failure to establish rapport, ignoring customers, unfriendliness, and rudeness.
  7. Errors in the service transaction, product defects in the product-service bundle, lost or damaged goods.
  8. Service quality errors, lack of quality in service processes.

Shillingburg and Seddon separately provides an additional type of waste for the method:[5][page needed][6][title missing]

  1. Value Demand, services demanded by the customer. Failure Demand, production of services as a result of defects in the upstream system.

Criticism

HMRC.[2]

See also

References

  1. ISSN 0268-4012
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    ISSN 1865-4924
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  3. ^ Levitt, Theodore (September 1972). "Production-Line Approach to Service". Harvard Business Review.
  4. ISBN 978-0-9541244-5-8
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  5. ^ Seddon, John (2003) Freedom from Command and Control: A Better Way to Make the Work Work, Vanguard Press.
  6. ^ Shillingburg, 2011


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