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Aligning Strategic Deployment to Middle Management |
Why Lean transformation needs to align Strategic Deployment with Middle Management...
Transforming an organization using the concepts and thinking of Lean is a challenge and requires tremendous passion, commitment, proper knowledge and the ability to execute the vision and plan. Leadership usually understand all that but what they miss is "how and who" element that is going to lead the change and do the actual transforming.
They tend to overlook the fact that middle management is already operating in a stressed to the limit environment and the idea of implementing Lean sounds great but they have limited time to focus on it. Lean is no different than any other major change, it requires continuous effort from all levels- especially middle management.
So leadership needs to recognize that when they decide to implement Lean to make their organizations more competitive and increase their client satisfaction, they must deal with the fact this is going to take a commitment of time by the middle management. If the middle management is already working at 100%, then common sense says some activities the middle management is presently doing will have to be eliminated from their duties to free up time....Read More
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Lean Advisors to speak at APICS Toronto Chapter AGM- June 2012.
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NEW Client Contracts
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Lean Advisors Chosen by Assinaboine Community College for their Process Improvement Initiatives... Read More
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