What to expect as a Lean Manager? depends on the CEO's commitment

What to expect as a Lean Manager?
- depends on the CEO's commitment

Operational Excellence: the CEO has delegated to one of their executives a program to generate savings or improvements.

Lean transformation: the CEO is working with a coach to spend more time where the revenue generating business is done and change how they are running the company.

understand which problem we’re trying to solve:

• a program of productivity improvement workshops to deliver savings,

• or a program of gemba walks to deliver ideas and voluntary engagement in trying new ways of satisfying customers.

Great article by Michael Balle here: https://www.lean.org/balle/DisplayObject.cfm?o=5173

The impact of lean on the financial performance of an SME

“typically 3 years after the beginning of the transformation businesses will have the opportunity to dramatically outperform their non-lean industry peers.

management should learn to see the methodology as a #Strategy rather than a set of tools, and framing the transformation as the development of a system for continuous improvement and learning rather than the simple improvement of processes.”

link to article here:

https://planet-lean.com/financial-performance-sme-research