What is Lean? | Within Walking Distance | WWD06
Channel: impi!
Date: 2022-06-23

As a leader do you practice lean?  Do you even know what Lean is? 
Lean matters if you want superior results and engaged people at work.

Definition: Lean is both a way of thinking and a practice that aims at delivering exact value to the customer by continually engaging people to improve quality, delivery and cost.

Three Principles:
– Create a thinking  people
– Eliminate Wasteful activities
– Establish standards and respond immediately to abnormal situations

Links:
Lean  definition by the Lean Enterprise Institute: https://www.lean.org/explore-lean/what-is-lean/
John Krafcik. Triumph of the Lean Production System. 1988. https://www.lean.org/downloads/MITSloan.pdf
James Womack and Daniel Jones. Lean Thinking. 1996. https://www.lean.org/store/book/lean-thinking-2nd-edition/