ABSTRACT
The lean management system, like the lean production system, consists of only a few principal elements. Lean management is a system in which the elements are interdependent (as in the lean production system). That means all of the elements have to be present for the system to work. A third similarity with lean production is that none of the elements is complex or complicated. And finally, lean management and lean production themselves are interdependent; one does not stand for long without the other.
