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Process Management Explained
Process management presupposes that there are processes to be developed and improved. There are three primary methodologies in use today: lean thinking; Six Sigma; and Theory of Constraints (TOC). This chapter summarizes them briefly and then borrow from each for application to the practice of architecture and design. The construction industry adopted Lean practices and formalized it with the founding of the Lean Construction Institute, a broad effort to increase the quality of work and raise productivity. Lean is an approach that seeks to reduce or eliminate waste with a focus on helping the work to flow. The TOC postulates an approach that strives to optimize an entire system by the discovery and elimination of constraints. TOC also employs five steps: identify a constraint, exploit the constraint, subordinate processes, elevate the constraint, and repeat the cycle.
Process Management Explained
Process management presupposes that there are processes to be developed and improved. There are three primary methodologies in use today: lean thinking; Six Sigma; and Theory of Constraints (TOC). This chapter summarizes them briefly and then borrow from each for application to the practice of architecture and design. The construction industry adopted Lean practices and formalized it with the founding of the Lean Construction Institute, a broad effort to increase the quality of work and raise productivity. Lean is an approach that seeks to reduce or eliminate waste with a focus on helping the work to flow. The TOC postulates an approach that strives to optimize an entire system by the discovery and elimination of constraints. TOC also employs five steps: identify a constraint, exploit the constraint, subordinate processes, elevate the constraint, and repeat the cycle.
Process Management Explained
Czap, Michael F. (author) / Buchanan, Gregory T. (author)
Lean Architecture ; 9-16
2021-04-06
8 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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