Global Lean for Higher Education -

Global Lean for Higher Education

A Themed Anthology of Case Studies, Approaches, and Tools

Stephen Yorkstone (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
414 Seiten
2019
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-0-367-02428-4 (ISBN)
68,55 inkl. MwSt
This book collects a series of investigations that reflect the state-of-the-art in the global practical application of Lean for Higher Education (HE).
Higher education (HE) is amongst the hardest sectors in which to apply lean. Universities resist change, their organizational cultures being far from the manufacturing environment where lean was born. The way HE organizations are structured, funded, and function globally is idiosyncratic; one size is unlikely to fit all. However, the sector is also dynamic and a mature understanding of lean, as a philosophy, led by principles, suggests there are many ways HE could grow through lean.

This collection of work reflects the state-of-the-art in the global practical application of lean for higher education. It aims to demonstrate the diverse applications of lean in universities inspiring others to deeply engage with lean thinking in their own unique context and to drive successful, sustainable, lean work.

Contributors are both well-known experts in lean HE and up-and-coming practitioners. Authors live globally, in countries such as Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Poland, the UK, and the USA. They represent higher education environments from applied teaching institutions to research-focused universities from 50 years old to more than 800 years old.

The collection focuses on lean applied across universities as a whole, often addressing the administrative support or professional services side of how these institutions work. The application of lean is not limited purely to the administration of such organizations but is applied to the primary purpose of universities: teaching and research.

This volume is not focused on lean theory. Instead, it discusses how HE institutions have taken lean forward and the lessons learned that others can share and learn from. It is composed of six sections: Starting out, People, Projects, Technology, Sustaining Lean, and Culture.

The rich and wide perspectives in this book will enable the reader to understand the many ways that lean thinking is applied in higher education globally. More importantly, this book will help the reader better understand and apply lean in the context of their own work.

Stephen Yorkstone enables continuous improvement in Edinburgh Napier University, where he works as an internal consultant. In his role he facilitates and runs interventions, from "process reviews" to more tailored workshops; convenes an internal community of practice; and delivers support and advice informally and formally in terms of consultancy, coaching and training. Externally to the University he chairs Lean HE, the international organisation for continuous improvement in universities (see: www.leanhe.org.) In previous roles he established the "Lean team" in the University of St Andrews and co-designed the Lean "St Andrews Model". In 2016 he authored "Lean Universities" in Routledge’s Companion to Lean Management.

Foreword: Bill Balzer, Bowling Green State University. Introduction. List of contributors. Acknowledgements.
Section I: Starting out. 1. Establishing Process Improvement Capability. 2. Tools to Get You Started. 3. VSM as a Tool for Creating a Lean Culture in a University. 4. "Lean" into your service model: An institutional case study using Library systems. 5. Developing a Continuous Improvement Service: From Inception to Reality in 18 months.
Section II: People. 6. Identity and Values to Drive Respect for People: A case-study based on embedding kindness as an organizational value.. 7. Inspiring Sustainable Higher Education and Lean through a Lean Ambassadors Network. 8. Improving Performance through Engagement – the Impact of Daily Stand-ups in the University of Strathclyde. 9. Readiness to change towards lean transformation among employee in Universiti Putra Malaysia..
Section III: Projects. 10. Applying Lean in Projects; from Visualisations to Process Engineering – It’s Covered!. 11. BOSCARD A scoping tool for Lean continuous improvement projects and beyond. 12. Six Sigma as a method for improving university processes, the case of the academic assessment process. 13. Lean Training to Lean Projects. Section IV: Technology. 14. Machine Leaning: Integrating Lean into IT. 15. Can Information Services Lead a Network of Change Agents in a HEI?. 16. Lean, Kanban and Agile, A Story of Continuous Improvement in a University Software Team. 17. Every Organisation Needs a Mole.
Section V: Sustaining. 18. Head, Heart, Hands: The three essentials to sustaining Lean. 19. Lessons from implementing lean at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital. 20. Lessons from Cardiff University's Lean Experience.
Section VI: Culture. 21. Developing a Culture – the Essentials for Continuous Improvement. 22. Growing a Lean approach in a changing University. 23. Making sense of learning, practice and theory. 24. What if we knew the future could be different!

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 60 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 657 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
Technik
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10 0-367-02428-4 / 0367024284
ISBN-13 978-0-367-02428-4 / 9780367024284
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