The Lean Strategy: Using Lean to Create Competitive Advantage, Unleash Innovation, and Deliver Sustainable Growth

CHAPTER 4

Framing for Learning

Use Lean tools and methods for increasing understanding, teamwork, and improvement.

Having seen how the shop floor itself could show the way how to make daily decisions consistent with the larger strategic choices, Jacques as CEO, Fiancette as COO, and Prévot as CIO were quick to adopt the Lean learning system as a framework to structure their exploration:

1. They established a list of key indicators to reflect the safety, quality, lead time, productivity, energy performance, and morale challenges in each plant.

2. They built pull systems to handle variety through better planning at takt time, created continuous ...