TY - CONF TI - Continuous Improvement Plan of Business Process in Construction Company C1 - East Lansing, Michigan, USA C3 - 15th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction SP - 590 EP - 596 PY - 2007 AU - Lee, Doo Hee AU - Song, Young Woong AU - Choi, Yoon Ki AD - Graduate Student, Dept. of Architectural Engineering, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea, Phone +82-2-817-7339, FAX 816-3354, ldh800525@ssu.ac.kr AD - Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Architectural Engineering, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea, Phone +82-2-817-7339, FAX 816-3354, songhero@ssu.ac.kr AD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Architectural Engineering, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea, Phone +82-2- 817-0704, FAX 816-3354, ykchoi@ssu.ac.kr ED - Pasquire, C.L, Christine L. ED - Tzortzopoulos, Patricia AB - Lean management has traditionally been adopted by manufacturing industries to improve operations through the identification and elimination of all forms of waste. The construction industry has also adopted this philosophy, primarily in the field of projects. In order to increase a company’s competitiveness and productivity, lean management is needed in the enterprise business process as well as in the field. The intent of this study is to explore a method of introducing lean management which continuously improves enterprise business processes. We have adopted the five fundamental concepts (specify value, identify the value stream, flow, pull, and perfection) of lean management as an approach, and applied BPM (Business Process Management) to continuously improve business processes. An example is presented to illustrate how lean concepts were applied to the actual budget process of Korean construction companies. KW - Lean Management KW - Enterprise Business Process KW - BPM KW - Continuous Improvement PB - T2 - 15th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction DA - 2007/07/18 CY - East Lansing, Michigan, USA L1 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/505/pdf L2 - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/505 N1 - Export Date: 29 March 2024 DB - IGLC.net DP - IGLC LA - English ER -