Lean Thinking in the Office: Organize administrative and office processes by value stream rather than function. Drew Locher. (March/April 2008) [resource not subscribed to by the University of Houston Libraries. This article may be withdrawn by its host at anytime]

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The publisher of the Harvard Business Review has prohibited libraries from establishing a permanent link to articles published within the journal. Students and Faculty must retrieve articles directly from the Business Source Complete database.  

1. Swank, C. (2003). The Lean Service Machine. Harvard Business Review, 81(10), 123-129.

2. Goodson, R. (2002). Read a Plant--Fast. Harvard Business Review, 80(5), 105-113.

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