Every business can be lean, including yours.

In our next World's Smallest Newsletter™, you'll learn that North Star has just completed Lean training. We believe we are one of the first marketing/ad agencies in New England that has been Lean trained. Lean has traditionally been known as a practice in manufacturing that analyzes the expenditures of all resources - those that do not create value for the customer are considered wasteful and eliminated.

These days all types of service organizations can benefit from the principles of Lean. If you're faced with one - or many - office inefficiency challenges, Lean can have an immediate and positive impact on your company. Implementing Lean practices lets you find ways to lower costs, improve quality, reduce lead times, and increase productivity. From the service industry to manufacturing, results vary, but typical savings and improvements are:

• Reduce Service or Product Lead Time: 50 - 90%
• Recovered Office or Floor Space: 5 - 30 %
• Reduction in Work-in-Process: 60 - 80%
• Increase Service or Product Throughput: 40 - 80%
• Increased Organizational Productivity: 75 - 125%
• Time savings in professional services sector: 30-50%

Here at North Star we believe a Lean office is a successful office. Be sure to follow us on our Facebook and Twitter pages as we'll be updating the Lean changes going into affect at NSM - or share how your business is going lean.