| Lean Thinking |
Traditional Thinking |
The process is the problem.
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Employees are always the problem. |
System thinking and optimize the whole.
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Optimize functional departments. |
Fast delivery and high quality accelerate each other.
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Fast delivery and high quality are expensive. |
Process should be BRITTLE and easily broken by small
problems.
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Process should be STRONG with all safety switches
turned on. |
Measure the process.
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Measure the individual. |
Remove barriers and develop people.
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Motivate and manage the employee. |
What allowed the error to occur?
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Who made the error? |
Forecast more frequently to improve reliability of the
forecast.
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Make a comprehensive analysis to get a better
forecast. |
Being small and flexible is beautiful.
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Being big and centralized is efficient. |
Reduce none value-added work.
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Speed up value-added work. |
How your job fits in the process and get the things done.
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Focus on your job and just do it. |
Let us try and see what will happen if it is feasible in theory.
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Start changing after we prove that it will win with fact and data. |