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An organization that seeks to transition from a traditional view of leadership to a LEAN view must implement a comprehensive process of change across five dimensions:
1) Definition of purpose;
2) Design of process as value-producing for the customer;
3) Problem-solving capacity of all workers and managers in the organizations;
4) Re-definition of the role of manager and the meaning of leadership;
5) Adaptation of organizational culture (basic principles, values, and patterns of behavior).
The Lean Transformation model developed in the LGN has been adopted by ILE as an accepted work procedure that combines these five dimensions in a full, integrated organizational transformation.
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In most organizations, the high proportion of waste provides an almost infinite source of possibilities for improvement. Thus, ignorance or no-problem is necessarily a bad thing – rather, it... -
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Transition from Discussion to Dialogue to Innovate
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A Lean Leader Encourages Innovation and Creativity
Managers who want to hold on to their hierarchically controlled businesses and defend them against creativity and change are not protecting their organizations, but putting them at risk. Read... -
A Few Thoughts on Volkswagen and Management
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Engineers, Architects, and Other Questions of Identity – A Summer’s Even Dinner with John Shook
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LEI's Lean Transformation Framework Animated
A short animation that describes the 5 dimensions of Lean change (8 min) -
Putting the worker in the center
Michael Hoseus speaks of Toyota's working colture, mainly the guiding principles and the practical implications of putting the workers in the center
(At the Brazil Lean Summit 2016)
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