Comments on: Ask Art: Why Do Most Companies Think Of Lean as Just a Cost Reduction Program? https://www.lean.org/the-lean-post/articles/ask-art-why-do-most-companies-think-of-lean-as-just-a-cost-reduction-program/ Lean Production | Lean Manufacturing | LEI | Lean Services Wed, 10 Nov 2021 21:40:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Andy Sattlberger https://www.lean.org/the-lean-post/articles/ask-art-why-do-most-companies-think-of-lean-as-just-a-cost-reduction-program/#comment-6198 Wed, 10 Nov 2021 21:40:22 +0000 https://lei.flywheelsites.com/the-lean-post/articles/ask-art-why-do-most-companies-think-of-lean-as-just-a-cost-reduction-program/#comment-6198 Great article that provides an instructive glance into the phenomenal potential of the lean philosophy.

While Art Byrne focusses here on the time-based competitive advantage, there are many more possibilities. The lean team can work on better understanding and translating customer needs into hard-hitting business benefits; examples are customer delivery needs, design options, application support, or product / service functionality. And, improving quality is still a winning approach.

However, all these great rewards open up only after the manager divorces him/herself from narrow, siloed metrics such as productivity as the one and only measure for success.

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