What's Holding Back Lean?
What's Holding Back Lean? by Lauren Gibbons Paul (via Got Boondoggle - another new Lean blog):
After reading the articles take a new look at Deming's 14 Obligations of Management. There is quite a bit of similarity.
2. A short-sighted focus on cost reduction
Responding to profit imperatives, many companies are concentrating only on reducing costs rather than looking to lean as a source of greater efficiencies
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3. Emphasis on imagery rather than real work
Compared to their Japanese peers, U.S. management is too focused on the trappings of a lean initiative, such as slogans, launch parties and classes, rather than rolling up their sleeves and figuring out how to improve actual processes, says Womack.
Responding to profit imperatives, many companies are concentrating only on reducing costs rather than looking to lean as a source of greater efficiencies
...
3. Emphasis on imagery rather than real work
Compared to their Japanese peers, U.S. management is too focused on the trappings of a lean initiative, such as slogans, launch parties and classes, rather than rolling up their sleeves and figuring out how to improve actual processes, says Womack.
After reading the articles take a new look at Deming's 14 Obligations of Management. There is quite a bit of similarity.
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