ABSTRACT
Most prescriptions for lean production are missing a critical ingredient: a lean management system to sustain it. Lean management practices are like many other aspects of lean: easy to grasp, but difficult to execute consistently. This book spells out the distinction between an organization’s culture and its management system; provides a framework to see the differences between lean and batch cultures; and details the practices, tools, and thinking for establishing lean management. A lean management system sustains and extends the gains from implementing lean production. Lean cultures grow from robust lean management systems, and this chapter shows how.
