Chuck LEAN Business Consultant
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Lean is a new way of doing business. The culture of the company needs to change. The leaders need to leave their offices and go to the shop floor and help their people solve problems and create new processes.
Education occurs in the workplace or Gemba.
Throughput to the customer needs to improve.
What has been your experience with Lean?
What is the reason for Lean initiatives?
The Lean methodology relies on 3 very simple ideas:
So now when you know the core idea, let’s dig deeper and get to know the basic principles of Lean management and where it comes from.
What is Lean Management and How Did It Start?
Before you start with the basic Lean principles, you need to realize that the Lean methodology is about continuously [removed] purposes, and people.
Instead of trying to hold total control of work processes and keep the spotlight, Lean management encourages shared responsibility and shared leadership.
This is why the two main pillars of the Lean methodology are:
"The Lean Pillars"
After all, a good idea or initiative can be born at any level of the hierarchy and Lean trusts the people who are doing the job to say how it should be done.
Currently, Lean management is a concept that is widely adopted across various industries. However, it has actually derived from the [removed] , established around 70 years ago.
The Birth of Lean
Back in the late 1940s, when Toyota put the foundations of [removed] , they aimed to reduce processes that don’t bring value to the end product.
By doing so, they succeeded to achieve significant improvements in productivity, efficiency, [removed] , and cost-efficiency.
Thanks to this notable impact the Lean thinking has spread across many industries and evolved to 5 basic principles of Lean management as described by the [removed] .
Indeed, the term Lean was made up by John Krafcik (currently CEO of Google’s self-driving car project Waymo) in his 1988 article “Triumph of the Lean Production System”.