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

CHAPTER 7

Reusable Learning for Continuously Growing Value

Learn to learn by starting at the right point and following a clear improvement direction.

Lean, as the previous chapters reveal, embodies a fundamentally different way of thinking, a cognitive revolution that changes how one organizes, finances, and acts. The elements of a Lean strategy differ radically from conventional wisdom in everything from a different formula for growth to a different way of leading and managing. In particular, the elements of a Lean strategy include the following:

1. Increased perceived quality to drive sales

2. Intensity of kaizen efforts to reduce costs

3. ...