Implementing Lean Strategy

A Japanese concept, Lean Strategy and Planning refers to the overall implementation approach to apply lean thinking to businesses. A Lean organisation continuously strives to perfect material and information flow, pulled by customer demand in a visual, self-explaining workplace.

To put it simply, Lean is about doing more from less resource, less time, space and less money.

Five areas drive lean enterprise:
a. cost
b. quality
c. delivery
d. safety, and
e. morale.


The five drivers of enabling a Lean Approach are:
a. Specify Value
b. Identify and Map the Value Stream
c. Flows
d. Pull
e. Perfection

There are various tools of implementing Lean strategy across organisations like TQM, JIT, Six Sigma, 5Ss. A large numberof organisations across the globe have successfully implemented the Lean Strategy.

I have some questions for those who have dealt with the Lean Strategy in some form or the other.

Q. Which tool was adopted to implement Lean?
Q. How successful was it ?
Q. How did it improve the organisational performance?