Lean means layoffs
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When is lean not lean? When you use it to sack 150 000 IBM workers.
“LEAN is about offshoring and outsourcing at a rate never seen before at IBM.”
This is clearly an idiotic article written by someone who has no understanding what lean is all about.
“Layoffs don’t happen because ‘excess’ employees have been created when management got smarter about how they do business…. lean is not an immediate event but a long-term process, and that attrition is always at play. If there is a balanced approach to employee development and business management, there is no reason for layoffs…”
In fact, Toyotas culture of problem solving, reducing waste and when coupled with six sigma has been so successful that its being applied outside of manufacturing in attempt to prevent 100,000 people dieing every year due to medical error
Time to round-up the journalists and educate them I think. Oh, and you may also want to throw in a few politicians for goodluck as well.
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