Building a Lean Service Enterprise: Reflections of a Lean Management Practitioner

About Debashis Sarkar

Debashis Sarkar is one of the worlds leading lights in Lean Management. Over the last decade he has been researching experimenting and working on how to successfully implement the Lean principles to service companies. He is credited to have proposed and deployed worlds first holistic blueprint for Lean for Service and he pioneered Asias first Service Lean deployment in early 2000s. He also designed and implemented worlds first 5S for workplace efficiency in an office setting. Debashis has developed many new tools and techniques for Lean for Service some of which appear in this book. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of a boutique consulting company Proliferator Advisory & Consulting (www.proliferator.net) that enables companies with customer-centricity and lean thinking. His passion for Lean Management can be seen in his eight books and over 70 articles/papers. He has been invited all over the world for workshops and conferences. He was elected as a Fellow of The American Society for Quality and the recipient of the Phil Crosby Medal in 2014. Prior to getting into consulting he held leadership positions in companies such as ICICI Bank Standard Chartered Bank Unilever and Coke. To know more about him please visit the following: www.debashissarkar.com You can also follow him on Twitter: @DebashisSarkar