Lean in your organisation Questions: •• Do you already have lean initiatives in your organization? (Please give exam-ples) •• Where is the weak spot in your casework? •• Based on what you have heard – can you find improvements in your organiza-tion? VSM • Mapping the chains creating a comprehensive and structured overview of the chain of activities • Mutual understanding of processes • Reduced waste, shorter time

1. Applying Lean in the judicial sector
- Group Exercise
By Inger Toft Thiersen, Managing Partner
Viden Assistance (DK)
November 2012
Skopje
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2. Group Exercise
Programme:
• Introduction to group discussion
• Dividing into groups
• Discussion
• Conclusion
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3. LEAN – 5 principles
• Define what creates value for clients
• Establish the value-chain which creates the value
• Create flow in the value-chain
• Create pull (from clients)
• Ensure constant improvements
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Who are
clients
Define
value
Establish
value-
chain
Create
pull

4. Example of casework
• 10 minutes to receive and register contact
• 20 minutes to look for colleagues who can handle the matter
• 10 minutes to wait because IT system is working slowly
• 10 minutes to look for relevant information or previous acts because archive systems
not appropriate build
• 20 minutes to caseworkers case
• 10 minutes to manager assesses decision
• 15 minutes to adjust the formulation by the head of office
• 5 minutes for approval of the head of office
• 10 minutes to copy and journalize the case, including 5 minutes to find new paper for
the copier
• 5 minutes to print letter and package in envelope
A total of 150 minutes of working time – how much gives value to the client?
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5. Applying lean to Macedonia
• Please divide into groups
– judges,
– prosecutors
– Justice department etc.
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6. Group Exercise
Programme:
• Introduction to group discussion
• Dividing into groups
• Discussion
• Conclusion
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7. Lean in your organisation
Questions:
• Do you already have lean initiatives in your
organization? (Please give examples)
• Where is the weak spot in your casework?
• Based on what you have heard – can you find
improvements in your organization?
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8. Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
• Mapping the chains
creating a compre-
hensive and structured
overview of the chain of
activities
• Mutual understanding of
processes
• Reduced waste, shorter
time
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9. Example of casework
• 10 minutes to receive and register contact
• 20 minutes to look for colleagues who can handle the matter
• 10 minutes to wait because IT system is working slowly
• 10 minutes to look for relevant information or previous acts because archive
systems not appropriate build
• 20 minutes to caseworkers case
• 10 minutes to manager assesses decision
• 15 minutes to adjust the formulation by the head of office
• 5 minutes for approval of the head of office
• 10 minutes to copy and journalize the case, including 5 minutes to find new paper
for the copier
• 5 minutes to print letter and package in envelope
A total of 150 minutes of working time – about 40-45 min of value?
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Green time – value added
Yellow time – necessary but not
value added
Red time – unnecessary and waste
of time

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Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
•Find colleague
•Wait (IT system)
•Look for information
Register
•Value!
Casework
•Adjust formulation
•2nd approval
Managers
decision
•Copy
•Find paper
Journalize
•Consider sending pr.
e-mail
Print/package
10 min 20 min 10 min 5 min 5 min
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Shortest possible lead time is important :
• Focus on the flow in all operations
• The focus is on eliminating waste
• Clients will experience better service
• The employee who “works faster" = less stress
• You will see fewer interference in administrative processes
• Standards is to ensure short lead times and quality for all clients
So in many cases it will focus on lead times also result in
that you can actually work slower and more thorough -
just because you eliminate waste in processes.
Value Stream Mapping (VSM)

12. Results from exercise
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Optimize
process
Define
value
Describe
processes

13. Contact:
Inger Toft Thiersen, Managing Partner
Viden Assistance
Tel: +45 2442 6977
Mail: inger@videnassistance.dk
Web: www.videnassistance.dk
Profile on LinkedIn
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