Personally I am a great fan of Lean and systems thinking but it does have to be treated with great care. Remember that it is Toyota ,the “pinup boys” of Lean who have had to recall 9 million cars because of problems with the quality of what they produce. I thought Lean was supposed to cut out waste AND improve quality.

 

Chris

 

 

HI Steve,

 

Thank you for your reply.  Your presentation asks some interesting questions in terms of how LEAN  RM itself may or may not be LEAN.   I totally agree with a process centric approach to demonstrating results.  I wonder though if it can be  applied as well to issues of applying good judgement to managing risk?  

 

I had looked at the Impact Calculator previously,  but given your comments below,  will look forward to revisiting it through the LEAN lense.

 

Thank you for this information - it is helping me develop my thoughts on the subject.

 

Regards,
Taline Babikian | Information Manager | Information Management Unit |Boral Cement
Tel: 9033 4026 | M: 0401 896 915 | Fax: 9033 4099

 

From: Steve Bailey - JISC infoNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, 24 September 2010 6:57 PM
To: Babikian, Taline; RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK
Subject: RE: LEAN and RIM

Hi Taline,

 

I suspect  its not exactly what you are looking for but you might be interested in a presentation I gave at our ‘Building Bridges’ conference in Newcastle in 2009.  Its entitled ‘Towards a common framework for measuring benefits’ and explores the potential for applying LEAN principles to records management – both in terms of how RM can contribute to improving processes and reducing waste, but also asking how LEAN RM itself may or may not be.. 

 

The presentation is available from http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/events/buildingbridges/presentations (its the last on the list).  Unfortunately its just the slides as I tend to make the actual presentation up on the hoof but might just give you an idea of what I was trying to say.

 

My interest in LEAN and RM stemmed from research into ways of empirically measuring the impact of RM whilst developing our Impact Calculator.  Though this tool isn’t itself a tool to help you achieve LEAN processes, the fact that it takes a process-centric approach to benefits measurement and allows you to isolate the contribution that improved RM has made to process improvement certainly means that it is in keeping with the overall LEAN aims and objectives.

 

Hope you find this of use.

 

Best wishes

Steve

 

 

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Hi Everyone,

(apologies for cross posting)

I would be interested in hearing  from anyone who has integrated LEAN methodology with their Records and Information Management (RIM) program or has used RIM to support organisational Lean initiatives. 

What were your key activities and messages?  which aspects of each  did you integrate ?  What would you do differently  if you had to do it again?

Thanks in advance

 

Regards,
Taline Babikian | Information Manager | Information Management Unit |Boral Cement
Tel: 9033 4026 | M: 0401 896 915 | Fax: 9033 4099

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