Functional Lean™: Making the Most of Scarce Resources
Today's uncertain economy is creating significant pressure on function leaders to provide greater value to their organizations while simultaneously reducing the costs of their operations. With this pressing mandate, managers are scrambling to identify effective approaches that will help them meet this new challenge. Metrus' Functional Excellence strategy, Functional Lean™, is a proven technique for effectively identifying and eliminating "non value-added" activities, time and cost from internal functions.
Functional Lean™ actively involves the internal customers of specific services in a collaborative initiative to reduce low value activity. It employs a set of powerful tools and systematic processes to assist the Lean team in accurately identifying, then eliminating (or significantly reducing) waste. Organizations implementing Functional Lean™ typically achieve a 15-30% reduction total internal service function cost while continuing to meet business needs.