My Abstract is below
The emergence of the global market place
has placed an increased focus on customer satisfaction. Organisations have
placed an emphasis on creating ‘flow and pull’ systems aiming to satisfy
customer requirements. The concept of a lean culture has been applied to both the manufacturing lines and the office environment,
aiming to increase efficiencies while reducing indirect waste. These concepts are generally viewed as independent
activities rather than interdependent connection points. In a modern highly
regulated pharmaceutical industry, the integration of a lean office and lean
manufacturing is prevalent to satisfying stakeholders requirements. Competing
business priorities can inhibit flow, by creating an indirect ‘push’ within the
value stream.
This paper highlights
the benefits of embedding a systematic flow and pull system into an integrated
Lean Office and lean manufacturing business . By focusing on the flow of information
and material through the values stream, bottlenecks are be easily identified and
eliminated from the workflow.. The growth of business intelligence has created increased
opportunities for organisations to gain a competitive advance utilising lean
technology to improve customer satisfaction.
The results of my case study are as follows:
1) Created a live planning & control Power BI dashboard – that visualises bottlenecks in the information and product flow
2) Relaunched the existing planning & control meeting with a core focus on the dashboard performance
3) Introduced a continous improvement template to remove the rootcause of the bottleneck in the flow
4) Area ownership and accountability is now part of the meeting
Guidelines for the introduction are as follows
The function of the Introduction is to establish the context of the
work being reported. This is accomplished by discussing the relevant primary
research literature (with citations) and summarizing the current understanding
of the investigated problem. Furthermore, the purpose of the research must be
stated in the form of hypothesis, question, etc. The research approach and
rationale should be briefly explained. The possible outcomes must be revealed.
Both review and project-based research papers must be written in the
way to show that this section is the foundation of the project, so the stronger
the foundation the better the chance of asking the right questions. Do not keep
the reader in suspense, let the reader follow the development of the evidence.
Quite literally, the Introduction must answer the questions, “What
was I studying? Why was it an important question? What did we know about it
before I did this study? How will this study advance our knowledge?”
First paragraph: You should begin
the Introduction by clearly identifying the subject area of interest. Do this
by using key words from the Title in the first few sentences of the Introduction
to get it focused directly on topic at the appropriate level. This ensures that
you get to the primary subject matter quickly without losing focus or
discussing information that is too general.
Second paragraph: Establish the context
by providing a brief and balanced review of the pertinent published literature
that is available on the subject. They key is to summarize for the journal
readers what we knew about the specific problem before you started with this study.
This is accomplished with a general review of the primary research literature
but should not include very specific, lengthy explanations that we have
discussed in greater detail later in the Discussion.
Third paragraph: When you are writing
the last paragraph of your introduction, it is preferable to use a statement
like “The purpose of this study was …” or “Aiming to understand…” It is most usual to
place the statement of purpose near the end of the Introduction, often as the
topic sentence of the final paragraph. It is not necessary (or even desirable)
to use the words “hypothesis” or “null hypothesis”, since these are usually
implicit of you clearly state your purpose and expectations. In the last two
sentences of your introduction the authors should briefly state how they are
going to approach the problem. Why did you choose this kind of experiment or
experimental design? What are the scientific merits of this particular model
system (if you work on the development of a statistical model)? Do not discuss
in your Introduction the actual techniques or protocols used in the present
study (this will be done in the Methodology section). If the authors in the present
study, use a novel technique or methodology, the merits of the new
technique/method versus the previously used methods should be presented in the
Introduction.
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