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Businesses in all industries and services, including healthcare and governments, are using lean principles as the way they think and do.
Many organizations choose not to use the word lean, but to label what they do as their own system, such as the Toyota Production System or the Danaher Business System. Why? To drive home the point that lean is not a program or short term cost reduction program, but the way the company operates.
The word transformation or lean transformation is often used to characterize a company moving from an old way of thinking to lean thinking. It requires a complete transformation on how a company conducts business. This takes a long-term perspective and perseverance.
The term "lean" was coined to describe Toyota's business during the late 1980s by a research team headed by Jim Womack, Ph.D., at MIT's International Motor Vehicle Program.
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This is nothing but a misconception, that lean is suited only for manufacturing. Not true.
Lean applies in every business and every process. It is not a tactic or a cost reduction program, but a way of thinking and acting for an entire organization |
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