How Lean Strategies Can Affect Your Profitability

In the dynamic landscape of business, profitability is a top priority. Lean strategies have emerged as a powerful approach to achieving sustained financial success. In this insightful article, we delve into the direct and indirect ways in which lean strategies can significantly impact your organization’s profitability. By understanding these effects, you can harness the potential

Are Your Operations Truly Lean? Key Indicators to Assess Efficiency

The pursuit of operational efficiency is at the core of lean principles. However, gauging whether your operations are genuinely lean requires more than just surface-level observation. In this comprehensive article, we delve into key indicators that can help you assess the true lean efficiency of your processes. By understanding these indicators and their implications, you

Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed

Inventory Auditor

I recently discovered an article by Beau Groover that outlines his less-than-ideal experience in a government office process. He notes that at one point he was “almost three hours into this process and had accomplished absolutely nothing.” While Groover is clearly experienced in process improvement and has a trained eye for seeing that his experience wasn’t favorable, the general populous would also find this experience distasteful. It doesn’t take an expert to know that you are unhappily accomplishing nothing and wasting time. At the end of the article, he correctly concludes that the customer should be kept in mind when process development and improvement. It’s true, the customer is the most important part of business. The customer is the driving force behind why your business exists and the goal of your business should be to please the customer and improve ways of doing so.

Read more

The “Lean Pill” Side Effects

Carpenter's tools

I stumbled across an article called Lean and Sick by Praveen Gupta. Gupta points out his gripes with lean systems, “Lean has become more of displaying numbers, reorganizing the floor and such, but still most businesses shrink as there is little focus on customers and not much impact on growth.” He has a good point. Lean does in fact help display

Read more