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Lean Transformation Strategies
ELEMENTS OF A SUCCESSFUL LEAN TRANSFORMATION
Develop a Lean Roadmap
is will be a detailed, yet exible plan to implement Lean across the
company. ink about whether you really have the support of upper man-
agement. Make sure you are honest with yourself. If the majority of the
members of the steering committee are not highly committed, and one of
them must be the president, then you will need to approach Lean in a dif-
ferent way. Understanding that there is more than one approach, it should
go something like this:
• Get a Lean leader
• Establish a Lean steering committee
• Establish a Lean resource plan—Lea ...