The Deeper Understanding Of Lean

My years of training and consulting across the globe, have enlightened me by unearthing the following hidden meanings and philosophy of lean:

1) Lean means to allow the resources to remain idle if demand is satisfied
2) Lean means to generate idle capacity within the same resources
3) Lean means to question the necessity of each and every activity being done
4) Lean does not focus on cost and profitability as they cannot be improved directly; it focuses only on through put time
5) Lean is anti efficiency but pro effectiveness; focus on the whole rather than on the individual
6) There is no bigger muda than the muda of unused human potential
7) Observation – detection – rectification – standardization is continual lean
8) In lean there are no benchmarks; you simply compete with your own self
9) Don’t focus on cost per unit; focus on shortest time to satisfy the client
10) All overhead costs are muda (mandatory to some extent but can be reduced for sure)
11) Non alignment of lean and business strategy is like a soldier going to a war without a gun
12) Internal mudas pose more threat than the external ones
13) Mastering lean is like mastering life!! There is no end to learning
14) Those who want to understand life deeply become monks. Those who want to understand operations excellence deeply become lean experts
15) Reduction of Muda, in reality, could be transferring the muda to someone else
16) All technological advances are not necessarily for muda reduction. You pay huge sums to be peaceful at someone else’s cost

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