The Essence of Lean

John Drew, Blair McCallum and Stefan Roggenhofer

Chapter Chapter 2 in Journey to Lean, 2004, pp 15-24 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract ‘Lean’ has entered the everyday language of operations – so much so that a whole range of operational improvement processes are commonly labelled as lean. As a result, lean means different things to different people. Many associate lean with the production system invented at Toyota, but believe it is confined to the eradication of waste in order to cut cost. In fact, there is much more to lean than that.

Keywords: Business System; Management Infrastructure; Operation Improvement; Operational Improvement Process; Lean Operation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4039-4841-0_2

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