Beau Keyte

SEWICKLEY, PA— January 16, 2007—”Office processes are ripe for improvement with Lean Manufacturing concepts,” asserts Beau Keyte, keynote speaker for the PIA/GATF Continuous Improvement Network Annual Conference, April 15–18 in Jacksonville, FL. Keyte, co-author of the award-winning book, “The Complete Lean Enterprise”, believes that while printers often begin their Lean journey on the production floor, they only realize the full benefits of Lean when they pay attention to the high costs and lead times of non-production office activities. “It may surprise some people, but all of the lean concepts typically applied to production processes also apply to non-production and administrative processes. I show companies how to