Service 03
Lean should improve business performance — not create more meetings.
Lean is a business system, not a training program. Its value is measured in throughput, cost and delivery, not in the number of events held.
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What Lean is for
A system with four jobs.
- 01Improving flow.
- 02Reducing waste.
- 03Exposing problems.
- 04Developing better ways of working.
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Working vocabulary
The concepts we apply where they earn their place.
These are means, not the objective. Each is used only where it improves how work moves.
- 01Value
- 02Value-stream thinking
- 03Flow
- 04Bottlenecks
- 05Pull systems
- 06Kanban
- 07Standard work
- 085S
- 09Visual management
- 10Kaizen
- 11Root-cause analysis
- 12PDCA
- 13Waste reduction
- 14Changeover improvement
- 15Quality at source
- 16Error prevention
- 17TPM concepts
- 18Leadership behaviors
The objective is not to make the organization "look lean." The objective is to improve the way work moves, expose problems earlier and create measurable operational improvement.
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