Purchasing items just in case they are needed

Put it in order.

Identify Project, Draft Charter

A planning and management tool that visually describes the flow of work.

Used to review process for pain points.

Excessive Office Supplies

A place for everything and everything in its place!

Map Current Process, Identify waste, brainstorm actions

You can add lanes vertical lines that reflect timelines or systems and use horizontal lines for departments (or visa versa)

Each person writes as many solutions on separate post-it notes as they can think of.

Delay in the process due to waiting on materials, machines, or people

Inspection through clean. A clean office is a Process Improvement office.

Sustain, Re-evaluate, Improve

Listed down the left of a swim lane map to create horizontal swim lanes

100% participation

Requiring multiple approvals

Create rules for maintaining and controlling improvements and order

Present to Leadership and Receive Approval

An Activity is listed in the center area.

Can be used to determine flow of information, document, or people.

Restricting or not offering training on technical resources

Training, reinforcement and measurement!

Implementation, train employees, plan event

Highlight redundancies between different lanes and identify bottlenecks, waste and other inefficiencies.

Are correct employees doing the job. Is one person doing more work then another. Do employees have the correct training.