Lean principles have been proven highly effective in helping organizations become more productive by making work more efficient. Many of the concepts and tools, however, seem to be most effective on assembly line type processes. This might cause one to wonder how useful Lean tools would be to a person working solo, with nobody upstream or downstream to help with the work. It turns out there are several excellent Lean tools you can use quite effectively as a solo worker. This article shows how defining value in your process, followed by standardizing your tasks, organizing your work space, and paying careful attention to the sequence of tasks, can make work more efficient even for the solo worker.



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