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Lean library management : eleven strategies for reducing costs and improving customer services / John. J. Huber.

By: Publication details: New Delhi : DBS Imprints, 2013.Description: xxii, 197 p. : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9789382423133
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 025.1 23 H877
Contents:
Prologue: The power of a lean transformation -- Strategy one: Recognize that service performance is the key to customer retention -- Strategy two: Transform your change-resistant culture -- Strategy three: Understand how delivery service chains drive your library's performance -- Strategy four: Align your performance metrics with your delivery service chains -- Strategy five: Transform your new book delivery service chain -- Strategy six: Transform your customer holds/reserves delivery service chain -- Strategy seven: Transform your cost control philosophy to a lean service improvement philosophy -- Strategy eight: Transform your overall library service performance metrics -- Strategy nine: Transform your digital research delivery service chain -- Strategy ten: Transform your delivery service chain from a "push" to a "pull" philosophy -- Strategy eleven: Think lean before the concrete is poured -- Afterword: Lean continuous improvement -- Appendix: More lean tools -- Index.
Summary: In this book, it is shown how to apply Lean principles and practices -- how making small, simple changes in everyday routines will reap large time- and money-saving results.
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Includes index.

Prologue: The power of a lean transformation --
Strategy one: Recognize that service performance is the key to customer retention --
Strategy two: Transform your change-resistant culture --
Strategy three: Understand how delivery service chains drive your library's performance --
Strategy four: Align your performance metrics with your delivery service chains --
Strategy five: Transform your new book delivery service chain --
Strategy six: Transform your customer holds/reserves delivery service chain --
Strategy seven: Transform your cost control philosophy to a lean service improvement philosophy --
Strategy eight: Transform your overall library service performance metrics --
Strategy nine: Transform your digital research delivery service chain --
Strategy ten: Transform your delivery service chain from a "push" to a "pull" philosophy --
Strategy eleven: Think lean before the concrete is poured --
Afterword: Lean continuous improvement --
Appendix: More lean tools --
Index.

In this book, it is shown how to apply Lean principles and practices -- how making small, simple changes in everyday routines will reap large time- and money-saving results.

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