http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/30 A blog about improvement in health care Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:06:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/30#comment-21 Mike Fiedler Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:56:26 +0000 http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/30#comment-21 We may all be tempted to mistake the TOOLS of LEAN for a 'LEAN organization'. The organization becomes LEAN only when a shared philosophy guides a group of people working effectively together, to produce the most service, at the lowest cost. Your observation that LEAN is how you run your business fits well with Art Smalley's observation that too many American implementations of LEAN founder, because they focus on the tools. [see www.superfactory.com/articles/smalley_tps_vs_lean.htm ] We may all be tempted to mistake the TOOLS of LEAN for a ‘LEAN organization’. The organization becomes LEAN only when a shared philosophy guides a group of people working effectively together, to produce the most service, at the lowest cost. Your observation that LEAN is how you run your business fits well with Art Smalley’s observation that too many American implementations of LEAN founder, because they focus on the tools.
[see http://www.superfactory.com/articles/smalley_tps_vs_lean.htm ]

]]>