Lumpy Lean
How do you take your Lean? One lump or two? It seems that many people within Lean consider it as a project or as something you do in lumps like a series Kaizen Events.
Lean is a method of seeing your organisation in a different way and then heading toward something better. But it does not mean that you have to do it in big jumps. You can incorporate "kaikaku" into your plan. Kaikaku is when you make a big jump in changing the system.
More powerful is when you inch-worm your way to improvement every employee, every day in combination with the big jumps. What would it be worth if every employee saved you £1 every day and that improvement stuck so that each improvement was not just for that day but for every subsequent day? It all adds up.
Lean is a method of seeing your organisation in a different way and then heading toward something better. But it does not mean that you have to do it in big jumps. You can incorporate "kaikaku" into your plan. Kaikaku is when you make a big jump in changing the system.
More powerful is when you inch-worm your way to improvement every employee, every day in combination with the big jumps. What would it be worth if every employee saved you £1 every day and that improvement stuck so that each improvement was not just for that day but for every subsequent day? It all adds up.
