Jump on the Lean Six Sigma Bandwagon

By leansixsigma • on December 3, 2008

As Kevin points out over at Evolving Excellence

It may just be me, but it appears that the number of companies citing lean manufacturing in their financial reports, news releases, and general news articles has been increasing. Of course many of them really have no idea what lean is really about, or perhaps they only understand the waste reduction pillar without even knowing about respect for people. Lean is apparently becoming a requirement, or even an analogy, for success.

Well it’s not just private companies who are adopting “lean”, even the military are using it as well! Perhaps all firms need to understand lean from a strategic perspective and not just focus on the tools involved? , is to answer the questions:

What is good for ?
What is a problem we can solve with our core skills?
How can we make money doing this?
How will we answer these questions 10, 20, 50 and 100 years from now?

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John Asher 1 year ago 1 point
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So true. It is a shame that some companies use the word "lean" when they are really doing a transformation, re-organization, or just plain headcount reduction.
It gives lean manufacturing a real bad name, and it is a real shame.
If you cannot stand up in front of all employees and tell them that no jobs will be lost as a result of lean, then you will not get buy-in. Job combinations are going to happen, but put the displaced workers on kaizen, 5s, and standard ops teams and lean will snowball.

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