The Time Based Organisation
The Time Based Organisation. Dr R C Barker (Amazon.com ISBN 9798653501593)
If you want to get some idea of how much waste there is in your organisation and its supply chain, you will find this book very interesting.
Time Based Analysis identifies non value adding time and untapped potential in any organisation, no matter where you are on the developmental scale. Where lean has not been well received in public sector service organisation’s, you will find that time based analysis is more structured and displays results in a visually powerful format. Results of analysis from a wide range of service and manufacturing organisation’s in the book reveals that value adding capability is typically 15%. In other words, value adding touch time accounts for 15 days in 100 days of elapsed calendar time.