Increasing Competitiveness with Lean Thinking – Croatian Case Studies (CROSBI ID 622247)
Prilog sa skupa u zborniku | izvorni znanstveni rad | međunarodna recenzija
Podaci o odgovornosti
Erceg, Aleksandar ; Oberman Peterka, Sunčica ; Dotlić, Predrag
engleski
Increasing Competitiveness with Lean Thinking – Croatian Case Studies
Increasing competitiveness on regional, national and international level is most important goal for every company because it means success and survival on the market. There are several potential strategies and ways how to increase competitiveness and one of which is lean operations. Lean philosophy emphasizes total system efficiency, continual improvement, and value-added activity, reduces waste in companies and provides customer with only what is value for him. With lean thinking companies can improve efficiency not only in production and services providing but also in their offices. In reducing waste companies need to address seven different types of waste and they need to do that in five steps of lean thinking. The main goal this paper is to show that one of the possible decisions for improving competitiveness is to adopt lean principles in companies in order for them to be become faster, better, their products and or services cheaper and that they become more attractive for their customers. Lean thinking in Croatia is still not recognized as way to increase competitiveness of the company and only rare, mostly big companies are using this approach. In the second part of this paper we will examine how lean thinking can improve efficiency, save time and with that increase competitiveness in one of Croatian SME’s. Transition of toward lean thinking in Croatia will take time and should not be thought as one-time activity but as continuous improvement of company’s operations.
Lean ; lean thinking ; improving efficiency ; competitiveness
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Podaci o prilogu
103-122.
2013.
objavljeno
Podaci o matičnoj publikaciji
34th Joint Scientific Symposium - REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION - A CHALLENGE FOR COMPANIES AND COUNTRIES
Jautz, Ulrich ; Kurz, Rudi ; Singer, Slavica ; Barković, Dražen
Pforzheim: Ekonomski fakultet Sveučilišta Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku ; Hochschule Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences
978-953-253-130-5
Podaci o skupu
34th Joint Scientific Symposium
predavanje
07.11.2013-08.11.2013
Pforzheim, Njemačka