The development of a lean resource mapping framework: Introducing an 8th waste

International Journal of Lean Six Sigma

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 4-27

  Gibbons, Paul M ^a   Kennedy, Colin ^a   Burgess, Stuart C ^a   Godfrey, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lean; Non value adding; Process analysis; Process mapping; Resource management; Resource based view; Value added; Value stream mapping; Waste management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900332410     PISSN: 20404166     EISSN: 20404174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/20401461211223704     Document Type: Article

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