Lean Enterprise: The Ultimate Guide for Entrepreneurs. Learn Effective Strategies to Innovate and Maximize the Performance of Your Business.

By Daniel Stevens

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1. What is Lean Enterprise and how it works
2. Lean ideas and tools
3. How improve running project using lean

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• The five S
• How to encourage creativity and generate new ideas
• Using lean to create customer value

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Daniel Stevens
• Release date: Jul 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201778071

Book preview

Chapter 1 what is a Lean Enterprise, and how does it work?

ALean Enterprise is described as a company in which all functions strive for performance without waste in order to serve their consumers. Unfortunately, many businesses divert resources to non-value-adding activities, resulting in greater expenses, fewer sales, and a loss of competitiveness.

In a Lean Business:

The value of an activity is determined by assessing whether it moves along the value stream without taking needless steps...

There should be no action that does not provide value.

Lean enterprise principles are meant to detect and remove waste throughout the whole company and supply chain, resulting in a more efficient and successful firm.

Up to 90% of an organization's applicable resources can be squandered owing to idle personnel, equipment, and inventories, as well as poor material, time, and information management.

EnPower Group can assist you in implementing Lean Enterprise concepts to reduce waste significantly, therefore boosting quality, productivity, and, most importantly, profitability.

Man, Write, Plan, Desk, Notes, Pen, Writing

Some of the Most Common Lean Reductions and Improvements

MANY OF OUR CLIENTS believe they will be unable to successfully implement Lean Enterprise ideas and procedures in their organizations. The EnPower Group's structured methodology enables us to assist you in assessing the present status of your Enterprise and identifying and developing strategies to guarantee that Lean ideas and processes contribute to your organization's overall success, both now and in the future.

From the initial interaction with a prospect until the cashing of the check for products or services delivered, Lean Enterprise examines all operations. All of these activities are intertwined and must be maintained in a healthy balance.

What are the advantages of being a Lean Company?

Being a Lean Enterprise has three immediate benefits.

O Higher Profitability

O Improved Cash Flow

O Better Liquidity

These three short-term benefits should start to show up between 8 to 16 weeks and should last indefinitely.

Being a Lean Enterprise has four medium-term benefits.

· Increased client satisfaction

· Increased employee retention and satisfaction

· A larger number of consumers

· Increased revenue from existing clients

These four medium-term benefits should start to show up in 16 to 24 weeks and should be long-term.

What are the Benefits of a Lean Business?

Lean isn't a cost-cutting strategy. Instead, it is a growth potential that accumulates lower expenses and transfers them to the bottom line by eliminating waste that the consumer does not want to pay for.

O Customers have a different perception of Lean Enterprises: they are easy to work with, have fair prices, and consistent quality, therefore they buy more...increasing your market share.

O Customers consider Lean Enterprises to be Preferred Vendors.

WHAT STEPS DO YOU REQUIRE to take to become a Lean Enterprise?

By identifying and eliminating unnecessary operations, a firm may become Lean. The following are the most frequent waste components:

Effective Lean Enterprises extract the value of their whole workforce's human cognition (ideas, recommendations, and better approaches). They establish a waste-identifying culture, structure, and procedure.

How can I know whether being a Lean Enterprise would assist my company?

We'll be able to discover areas where you may benefit throughout the course of a meeting, which generally lasts 1–3 hours. We'll also provide some context for the financial value of the benefit you can anticipate.

Lean Enterprise vs. Lean Company

Alean firm is one that follows Toyota's lean production method, which includes eliminating superfluous processes, aligning all phases in an activity in a continuous flow, and organizing workers into cross-functional teams with a focus on continuous improvement. A business is a component of a value stream in the lean enterprise model, which may comprise several interconnected firms. A value stream connects all of the firms engaged in the creation, sale, and service of a family of products throughout the value chain.

The value stream encompasses all operations inside a firm that are necessary to develop, produce, distribute, and service a given product to a client.

A lean enterprise is a collection of people, functions, and legally distinct yet operationally coordinated businesses. Its value stream defines the lean enterprise.

Behavioral models in the German, American, Japanese, and Lean Enterprises

Individuals advance by climbing the functional ladder in the German method, which focuses on and hoards profound technological knowledge. This strategy's flaw is its aversion to cross-functional collaboration.

The American style of thinking has always been to put the person first. The flaw is that each person and firm in the value chain is trying to establish their own defendable stance. However, this every company for itself mentality hindered businesses from cooperating along the value chain.

The Japanese approach emphasizes the company's requirements. The strength of their strategy is that it allows firms to focus on the demands of the value stream while avoiding disputes and competition among members. However, their drawback is that the company's and cross-functional teams' emphasis inhibits corporate engineers' capacity to generate new knowledge in technical functions.

Linking lean firms to build a lean enterprise is challenging, and it necessitates a new lean behavioral model for individuals, functions, and businesses.

The Behavioral model of lean

Creating a lean enterprise necessitates a high level of collaboration among persons, functions, and firms, despite the fact that individuals, functions, and organizations have valid requirements that contradict with those of the value stream.

Individuals must embrace a career path that alternates between focusing on a specific value stream and gaining knowledge within a functional area. It is not appropriate to have a single allegiance to a function (e.g., engineering, accounting, or marketing). Extreme individuality must be replaced by conduct that is more cooperative and team-oriented.

In this new paradigm, functions no longer execute their functions and instead serve as support groups for value-creating teams. Functions act as schools, generating and summarizing information and establishing standards or best practices for how their function (e.g., engineering, buying, and production) should be carried out. The functions are carried out by cross-functional product development and production teams.

In a lean enterprise, member businesses must agree on a new code of conduct that incorporates rules for validating and controlling behavior inside value streams. Process audits, for example, might be used to make each company's actions clear to upstream and downstream members. In addition, each value stream requires a team leader, who is a company that organizes and manages the lean enterprise's member firms. Companies must also become increasingly concentrated on a smaller number of activities that they excel at and participate in many enterprises and value streams involving a variety of goods and services.

Japanese Keiretsu vs. Lean Enterprise

Lean enterprise and Japanese keiretsu are conceptually related, yet they are not the same. The Japanese keiretsu structure consists of a collection of firms that invest in each other's stock. If a member firm fails to follow the stated code of conduct, participants in a lean enterprise must be allowed to replace it.

The Lean Enterprise Strategy

Implementing the lean enterprise model successfully will include doing more with less and less. Employees who fear losing their employment will be stressed if waste and excess are continually removed. This is in direct opposition to the requirement to sustain a lean company culture. When a result, lean businesses must consider all of their choices for maintaining jobs, including decreasing prices as cost savings is realized and speeding up product development to increase product offerings and open new markets.

What Does It Take To Run A Lean Business?

Leadership commitment, employee involvement, and execution, in our view, are the three elements to effective Lean adoption. These lay the groundwork for Lean to take hold and produce outcomes.

Commitment to Leadership

A truly Lean Enterprise can only be realized if it is ingrained in a company's culture. It gets ingrained in the company's DNA, influencing how workers