The Field Guide for Change Agents
The nature of lean implementation is changing. Previously the focus was on implementing lean tools and practices in a manufacturing value stream or small portion of it. Now companies increasingly are trying to create integrated lean operating systems and to implement lean throughout the entire enterprise.
Two new roles are emerging in response to these changes. The first is that of the manager or specialist with experience in lean manufacturing who is now expected to be the leader or change agent for lean implementation across the company. The second is the individual who either has done some lean implementation in manufacturing or has done process improvement work but has no lean experience who is assigned to role of lean change agent on the office or administrative side.
The demands on the individuals in these new roles are huge. They are given the responsibility for bringing about and sustaining change in their organizations without the position or power to drive it. They have to lead others to and through implementation of lean change activities by persuasion, influence, demonstration, negotiation, and teaching. And while most have or can get knowledge of the technical aspects of lean, few are prepared to take on organization-level leadership effectively.
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By learnsigma on February 1st, 2010 at 9:40 am
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