Publisher's Synopsis
Over the past 25 years, Lean thinking and practices have been widely accepted by both public and private sector organizations, irrespective of its size and nature of the business as a process excellence methodology. Lean has been embraced by many Higher Education Institutions at a global level to seek improvements in response to the demands of the Higher Education marketplace. These demands may include: meeting and even exceeding the expectations of students, reducing financial resources, reducing operational costs across the university sector and meeting the strategic objectives in a consistent manner. This eBook on LSS for Higher Education has attracted a number of papers from various countries including the UK, USA, India, Singapore and South Africa making it very international and inter-continental. A total of seven excellent papers will be appearing in this eBook.
