Beyond the Lean Revolution: Achieving Successful and Sustainable Enterprise Transformation

APPENDIX ALean Enterprise Self-Assessment Tool: Case Studies

THROUGHOUT THIS BOOK, we have shown examples of how enterprises have used the Lean Enterprise Self-Assessment Tool (LESAT) to conduct various aspects of the assessment of the current state before creating a plan for enterprise transformation. In this Appendix, we present two full case studies that show how LESAT is used and what results are obtained from the analysis.

These cases derive from data and information obtained while researching U.S. firms within MIT’s Lean Advancement Initiative consortium, but each case is actually a composite from multiple participants. The names of the companies and individuals are fictitious. The exact data and corporate information do not reflect any ...