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Understand the distinctive characteristics and key features of lean production and build on your company's core competencies to develop your own way.

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Make the lean approach inspiring and mandatory. Lead by example – demonstrate your long-term commitment to lean approaches, systems and processes. Use internal inefficiencies and external threats to establish a creative dissatisfaction mindset and prompt a lean movement.

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Nurture the Kaizen mindset − a continuous improvement mindset aimed at continuous improvement (Kaizen) through identification and radical or incremental removal of non-value-adding activities (wastes).  >>>

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Look for big gains. Empower employees and encourage them to be opportunistic and intrapreneurial in identifying and pursuing opportunities for radical improvements (Kaikaku).

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Use experts for teaching and getting quick results. Learn by doing first and training second. Begin with action in the value chain and then follow quickly with cultural change.

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Organize over value streams. Use value stream mapping to develop future state visions and help people to visualize the desired results. Start with value stream pilots. Establish a model “go and see” workshop and ensure that what is going on in the workshop is readily visible and understandable.

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Use Kaizen workshops to teach and make rapid changes.  >>>

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Don’t push, pull. Produce the necessary items just-in-time (JIT).  >>>

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Realign metrics with value streams perspective.

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Hire or develop lean leaders and develop a succession system.

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