While lean found its early development in manufacturing environments, leading lean practitioners have expanded into more advanced applications of lean tools and principles that produce valuable results outside of manufacturing, in both public and private sector organizations. Collectively, the techniques enable companies to gain a significant competitive advantage by producing higher-quality products at lower costs, all the while shortening the time between orders and delivery. Typical results include reductions of paperwork process flow time of at least 50 percent, dramatic reductions of required floor space, reductions of hand-offs from 50 to five, and on-time performance improvements of up to 100 percent.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) invites nominations from a diverse range of qualified candidates to be considered for appointment to its Local Government Advisory Committee (LGAC). The LGAC was chartered to provide advice to the EPA Administrator on a broad range of environmental issues affecting local governments. This notice solicits nominations to fill twenty three (23) vacancies through August 2014. To maintain the representation outlined by the charter, nominees will be selected to represent: large cities; moderate-sized cities; small communities and townships (under 10,000); county-elected officials-urban, suburban and rural; city elected and appointed officials (city council members, city managers); state elected and appointed officials (state representatives, stat...
The purpose of this article is to examine the impacts of e-government in Canada on both inter-governmental relations and local governance. The rationale for such an examination stems from the emergence, over the past decade of two parallel discourses in public sector and governance reform: first, e-government as primarily a set of national and provincial strategies for public sector reforms, and secondly, a discourse has focused on the rising importance of municipal government and local governance systems. The main problem at present remains the absence of more holistic thinking on the need for a new enterprise, federated architecture for collaboration that entails an overhaul of the existing political arrangements of the federation. An additional lesson to draw at present is that the w...
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