Abstract
- Highlights: a high percentage of the Western world workforce works in offices; Value Stream Map, a lean tool, allows waste identification in services companies; Lean Management helps companies to prepare for digital transformation; there is scarce scientific literature ondigital transformation and Lean Office.
 -Goal: thepurpose of this article is to report the implementation of Lean Office and digital transformation in a services company.
 - Design / Methodology / Approach: the research method was a qualitative approach, with literature review followed by a case study, and data collected until September 19, 2018.
 - Results: the comparative results between current and future Value Stream Maps showed consistent improvements in terms of performance indicators. The lead time is expected to fall from 101 hours to 64,65 hours under normal conditions, and from 221 hours to 114,65 hours if there is a need to bypass through process # 6.
 - Limitations of the investigation: there are limitations in this study.Basically, the time frame until the digitalization of the processes # 1, 2, 3 and 6 have been completed, in order to allow the comparison with the original expectations described in the VSM of the future state.
 - Practical implications: it was possible to demonstrate how the implementation of Lean principles, techniques, and tools can bring benefits to an IoT solutions provider.
 - Originality / Value: no records were found on Scopus and Web of Science databases for the search sentence "digital transformation" AND "lean Office", representing a gap to be filled with this study.
Highlights
IntroductionThe Office environment is of great importance for the Western world, since several studies show that 50% to 80% of the workforce is in the offices (Danielsson, 2013)
The origin of Level – Current State Operation (Lean) is based on manufacturing and shop floor; its basic principles are applicable to any part of a company (Kurigeret al., 2010), including Office and administrative processes, known as Lean Office.Tapping and Shuker (2003) estimate that administrative functions represent between 60% and 80% of the costs associated with meeting customer demands, when manufacturing a part
A case study was developed in an IoT solutions provider located in Brazil, and it was possible to demonstrate how the implementation of Lean principles, techniques and tools can bring benefits to the Operation department
Summary
The Office environment is of great importance for the Western world, since several studies show that 50% to 80% of the workforce is in the offices (Danielsson, 2013). The digital transformation of the Office environment is gaining increasing interest by the companies. A lot of factors influence this implementation, which should be done in an iterative manner to ensure the desired results. It is risky, challenging and costly to conduct a digital transformation in all business units and processes simultaneously. Abolladoet al. (2017) recommend starting with few users and a limited number of activities, acquiring the necessary experience to later expand the digital transformation project for the rest of the organization
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