Over recent decades, the increasing competitiveness of markets has propagated the term
“lean” to describe the management concept for improving productivity, quality, and lead time …

Purpose A rich agenda for future research in the field of Lean Manufacturing (LM) is
available in the academic literature. The purpose of this paper is to determine the LM future …

The positive results of manufacturing companies adopting lean production practices
certainly impacted the adaptation of Lean Manufacturing principles to the service sector …

Purpose The present research aims to understand how the literature on lean leadership is
currently structured. For this, the thematic subdivisions within the subject (thematic clusters) …

Purpose This paper aims to explore knowledge work waste and defines the priorities for
enhancing performance and productivity in policing and prosecution services (PPS) …

This study proposes a process-mapping method based on the SPM to identify waste in office
environments. Design Science Research was used to develop a method (M0) for mapping …

Lean management principles include customer focus, continuous improvement and quality
through waste reduction for organizations, including IT, bringing benefits such as bringing …

Purpose This study aims to examine the influence of lean management practices on
organizational process effectiveness and maturity. The underlying assumption of this paper …

Standardised Work (STW) is one of the most effective but least utilized Lean tools for
business process improvement initiatives in the transactional office environment known as …

Purpose This study aims to find the main contributions from lean office (LO) that can be
applied to the project management field, correlating these two areas toward an improvement …