lean manufacturing projects. The production manager said, look at the project has brought huge benefits: a decrease in inventories, reduce waste and labor utilization. All of these are correct - at the same time is irrelevant. These are not very great impact on the company's current priority issues, an opinion-related factors - a decrease in inventories - it seems to make people panic. This project requires a pre-paid a lot of investment in training, and staff to participate in this training will bring the entire company in all levels of distraction. The interests of the project is six months or a year later to see, and the project requirements on the priority of the company's comprehensive restructuring.
As general manager, you will be how to deal with this proposal? Of course, is thrown into the wastebasket. Such a request for training for everyone from top to bottom and in the second year to see the proceeds of large-scale projects, 95% will not be accepted. In most cases, they do not meet the company's business priority setting.
If you want a lean, do not need to wait for. The outcome is significant, the effort is worthwhile. But only an expensive and time-consuming proposal to your superiors, is not the result. When I want my organization to get the benefits of lean, I'm not to the higher request of $ 100,000 as well as a large-scale training programs. I told him I was a production line implementation of a test, to spend one week's time, and I think the end of this week will be able to see results. If the target is not achieved, we have nothing to lose. Then I let the practice of this project speak for itself. Lean this way is easier to promote. Although before the start of the event, the Lean seems to be just a fashionable thing only, but lean benefits of the activities are carried out it can be revealed.
Feingold: you do not need a higher level to actively support the implementation of lean, but if we can get his support and of course better. Even without the support you have also been improved as a reward. The purpose of the implementation of Lean not to your boss, but in order to improve workin