Chapter 1The BASICS® Model: Suggest Solutions

DOI: 10.4324/9781003185796-1

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Henry Ford

The first S in our BASICS® model stands for Suggest Solutions (see Figure 1.1), and the goal of this chapter is to discuss how to proceed once the analysis is completed. There are many pieces to a Lean implementation, and they are all interconnected. The material in this chapter walks through the relationships and how the data presented to this point can be leveraged to prepare you for your implementation. It will discuss suggested solutions for improvements and making recommendations to management to secure their buy-in and approval. The information obtained from the staff during the value stream map ...

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