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Business Process Management - Powerpoint Show from Roger Maull, December 2005.

Lean Order Management - modelling business process activities using activity chains - PDF of Powerpoint presentation from Hans-Henrik Hvolby, March 2006.

Lean Manufacturing for Small Business  - Powerpoint Show from Vinod Kumar, March 2002.

Videos by Vinod Kumar, on Success factors in small business, and Best Management Practices for SMEs (Windows Media Player format, about one hour each)

Presentations by Lynne Massey, on  Introduction to Lean Thinking, and Organizing your Business for Export. (Both are PDF Acrobat files, and quite large - about 4 megabytes, 40 pages.) Also two videos: a seminar by Lynne Massey on Lean Thinking (Windows Media Player format, 31 minutes) and a question session with Lynne Massey (Windows Media Player, 44 minutes).

John Bicheno was a visiting fellow for Smartlink in 2001 Here are some brief extracts from two books of his: The Quality 75 and The Lean Toolbox. Both are published by PICSIE in Britain.

The European Foundation for Quality Management: Business Excellence Model

ISO9001:2000

Supplier Associations

Supplier Partnerships

Rick Delbridge who visited Australia late in 2000, has provided two videos (in Real Player format)  one on Continuous Improvement in Lean Manufacturing: The Learning Factory and the other on Continuous Improvement through Supply Chain Management

The Smartlink Guide to Lean Production
Smartlink has produced a CD-ROM which includes most of the above material. Details.

David Cray, a Smartlink Fellow in July 2002, has provided two Powerpoint shows:

Organizational structures in small and medium-sized firms

Managing Complex Structures

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updated 28 March 2006