Creating a Lean Culture, 3rd Edition

36 ◾ Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions

might not cause a miss, and thus would go unnoticed. His team leaders

are Pareto-charting reasons for misses in two different areas, looking for

the most frequent problems in order to attack them, and so on. This is an

example of what Lean management can look like and the ways it can sus-

tain and extend the gains in Lean production.

Implementing Lean Management: Where to Begin?

Leader standard work (detailed in Chapter 3) is the highest leverage element

in the Lean management system, the engine that powers the system. But

in most cases, leader standard work is not the element to start with when

implementing Lean management. Here’s why.

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