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In order to improve and sustain competitive advantage, organisations across the world have embraced different tools and techniques that they hope will keep them alive within the cutthroat market place. Currently, Lean Management LM and Six Sigma SS are the most widely recognised continuous improvement CI initiatives accessible by organisations with faddish characteristics. At the same time they are...
Lean management and innovation are two driving forces of today's business success. However, with fundamentally different concepts, some aspects of lean management may negatively affect a company's capability to be successful with certain types of innovations. This paper develops a framework to analyze such impacts. With comparisons between the lean culture, lean design, lean supply chain management...
The purpose of this paper is to present an application model which can be used in a supply chain, to assess the changes taking place in organizations that are implementing lean strategies. To assess changes towards leaner organizations, the determinants on the use of indicators to assess companypsilas improvements are identified and discussed. The model considers indicators that have been designed...
The development of lean thinking in the past has often been labelled the tool age, but to make lean deliver its full benefits, companies must move beyond that into the age of lean management. Some general observations about organisation and management are discussed. Then simple elements of lean management worthy of experimentation are given. A clear vision of organisational objectives and better management...
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