ABSTRACT

Virtually every business today is trying to adopt the principles of Lean in some shape or form. Yet, only a significant few manage to hold the gains and continually improve at a steady pace. For the vast majority, the challenge of trying to transform an entire culture to embrace new ways of working is often like pushing water uphill. One of the issues here is that Lean is seen simply as yet another initiative to dabble with in the hope that this time somehow it will be different from the previous initiative. This is ultimately down to a little knowledge being a dangerous thing.