ABSTRACT
This chapter starts by taking a worm's eye perspective—the same point of view a Lean practitioner would have when in the midst of organizational dynamics wanting to become a change agent. It describes a timely manner how the growth and emergence process of a real complex networked Lean strategic organizational design happened. For instance in the brain, increasing organizational complexity is only possible because more complex structures and functions base their very performance on the structural and functional dynamics at its basic operator, the neuron. Accordingly, nested evolution in Lean organizational systems represents a phenomenon inside an operator that can be replicated at different levels of aggregation. In Lean organizational systems, this operator is the value stream, and the phenomenon that characterizes it is that value streams can be understood as processes at different levels of aggregation.
