Lean universities.

Yorkstone, Steve

Abstract

This chapter examines lean implementation in higher education (HE) institutions. There is evidence of lean initiatives beginning in HE in the US in the early 2000s; there is also some evidence of business process improvement activity before this time (Moore et al., 2004; Waterbury et al., 2011). Today, many universities and other HE institutions are pursuing lean thinking.

• Acceptance Date: Feb 16, 2016
• Publication Date: Dec 19, 2016
• Deposit Date: Aug 12, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 6, 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Series Title: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting
• Book Title: The Routledge Companion to Lean Management
• Chapter Number: 39
• ISBN: 978-1138920590
• Keywords: Higher Education, lean initiatives, business process, efficiency, lean thinking,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9639
• Contract Date: Mar 6, 2017