* using the word manage in it's widest sense.
- It's principles etc will be deployed throughout the organization and people's morale will leap ahead.
- As it is in Toyota: called Management By Policy Control .. or .. Hoshin-Kanri.
- Soon, not so far off, LEAN will be the engine that operates the entire spectrum of an organization.
- Soon: "Great, I see that you are using LEAN to manage the entire enterprise!" And ..
- "Great, it's very interesting how you are using LEAN Management to adopt Policy and convert Strategic Thinking into Action."
- Encompasing SWOT, GOSPA**, MBO**, FMEA, ISC, QA, TQM, PDM et al, and the learning organization.
- ** with big bold audacious targets.
- "I'm so glad to be on your Board of Directors - where LEAN Management is the way to manage ALL of our aspirations and goals totally"
- This is the future of LEAN: LEAN Management; the LEAN enterprise / organization.
- That's the way it is since 20 years in Toyota and of course getting better and better.
- Perhaps as LEAN unfolds, it may one day be called "GO LEAN" or some such title.
- Technology enabling software would have to keep it simple, one-page style, exciting, compelling, etc;
- PLUS to make place for the many human-based foundation principles such as:
- cross-functional, .. multi-disciplinary,
- deep reflection (both personal & team),
- counter-measure,
- at-a-glance visual evaluation, visual symbols etc,
- attainment of levels of progress; bronze - silver -gold - etc
- present day LEAN tools sets such as SPC, 0 DFFP and the whole range of TPS,
- PDCA based (ref. Dr. Edwards Deming),
- 3G, 4M, 5 Whys' and 7 QC Tools, and QC Story Board,
- 'Tamazume' massive creative input for ''Cost-Half '',
- the journey leading us to TQM
- + all good innovation-collaboration tools***.
- *** can I say this as "8 axis of movement" ?