August 2016
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
15h 8m
English

Knowledge workers themselves are best placed to make decisions about how to perform their work.
—Peter F. Drucker
As we noted in the House of Lean, the goal is simple: to deliver value in the sustainably shortest lead time. Achieving this goal requires fast, decentralized decision-making. Any decision that must be escalated to higher levels of authority introduces a delay and can decrease the fidelity of the decision, due to the lack of local context, plus changes in fact patterns that occur during the wait time. Decentralized decision-making reduces delays, improves product development flow, and enables faster ...
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