Lean @ LAC: Continuous Improvement   Tags: continuous_improvement, leadership, lean, lewiston  

This guide is designed to provide quick access to resources identified by USM Lewiston-Auburn College. Please report errors and omissions to me, the co-coordinator of LAC's continuous improvement initiative, or Lyn Philbrick. 

NOTE: this guide will be updated regularly, so check back frequently!

Now...what does Lean mean for us???

All department heads have sent the Dean their lean goals for 2012-2013 academic year.

Check out the latest edition of the Becoming Lean Pocket Guide from University of St. Andrews (Scotland). It's a great document that everyone should read!

On my bedside stand is Lean Library Management: eleven strategies for reducing costs and improving services.

Recently I read Eliyahu Goldratt's The Goal: a process of ongoing improvement. It's a novel about the manufacturing process that teaches you how to examine your goals, assumptions, measurements, and bottlenecks through the story of a manager who is given three months to turn his plant around or face closure.