Is Lean Management suitable for your organization? I have done so many Lean implementation for different companies coming from different industry in both manufacturing & service, and I can say that they are successfully implemented & also help these companies to perform better. But, for Lean to really successful, the most important factor is that the top management of the management understand the potentials of Lean and work with his teams to implement Lean.
I have one CEO that involves himself in driving Lean in his organization and with his effort his organization is able to really transform itself. Within a short period of time (less than 2 weeks), the company has already enjoying improvement and also staff performance improvement.
A lot of people just consider Lean as a set of tools and forget the real objectives of Lean. Taiichi Ohno, who is one of the key driver of developing Toyota Production System (TPS), said “All we are doing is looking at the time line from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing that time line by removing the non-value-added wastes.” This is the real purpose of Lean.
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John Hunter // August 5, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Well put. Improvements should be possible very quickly with lean management. Then by taking advantage of the resources freed up by those improvements gains can be increased creating a positive chain reaction of improvements leading to more improvements and on and on. Lean management posts from the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog.