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Lean for LeadershipC N Mohan
Practice Head – Lean & Kanban, SolutionsIQ India
What is Lean?
Lean = Tools which create efficiencies and standardize the processes.
Actual Lean Implementations = Lean Tools + Lean Thinking
20%
80%
Lean ToolsLean Thinking
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Where should be the focus??
Focus should be on Lean Management• A bridge between the Lean Tools and Lean
Thinking
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What is Lean Thinking?
Lean Thinking = Set of Leadership Behaviors + Structures
Lean Thinking helps sustainment of Lean Implementation through a
“Culture of Leadership”.
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Who is a Leader?Le
ader
Views self-development and training others as the only possible path
strives for continuous improvement in every aspect of the business
views the company as a total system which grows through daily improvement or it
deteriorates
Requires that everyone at all levels of organization possesses deep knowledge about processes and are able to sense
change and respond appropriately
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What are Leadership Behaviors?
Respect for People
Continuous Improvement
Gemba WalksHoshin-Kanri
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What are Leadership Structures??
For Enterprise-wide Lean implementation to succeed we need Leaders at following levels
Strategic
Level (CEO,
Sr. VP)
Tactical Level (Managers, Team Leads)
Functional
Level (VPs,
Directors)
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Focus Areas for each levelOrganizational Level
Primary Contribution
Tasks Secondary Contributions
Tasks
Strategic (CEO, Sr. VPs)
Governance – Steering and Oversight
Support Cross-boundary perspective
Measure adherence to post-project processes
Monitor intersection measures through Gemba Walks
Functional (VPs, Directors)
Accountability Meet project commitments & Manage intersection performance
Disciplined adherence & commitments to processes post-project
Collaborate in process management & Gemba walks
Tactical (Managers, Team Leads)
Tactical Lean Management System
Disciplined adherence & Gemba Walks
Associate engagement and Continuous Improvement
Teach, Practice Root Cause Problem Solving
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What Leaders do?
Leaders influence and reinforce Behaviors and Practices within the Organizations there by creating a CULTURE.
Q:What is Culture?A: The Way we do things here
Note: Culture evolves slowly, changing them is even slower!
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How does Culture evolve?
Leaders
Behaviours
Culture
Value to Customer
Influence
Drives
Generate
Based on Needs
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How to germinate Culture?
Lean Management
Principles
Value StreamsProcess which crosses many functional
boundaries to aid Flow of Value
LeadersIdentify and eliminate interruptions
impeding the Flow of Value
CON
SIST
S O
F
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How to make it @ Strategic Level
System Level Intervention for Lean
GovernanceSenior Executive
governance processLean Steering and
Oversight (LSO) group
Project Resource
and Accountabili
ty (PR&A) panel
Accountability and Exception Management
Structures
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How to make it @ Functional Level
Meet Commitments to Projects and Measure of Process Performance consisting of• Quality
o Refers to defects, errors, rework, 1st time quality and customer satisfaction
• Delivery o Refers to total cycle time from beginning to end of the
process across departments
• Costso Refers to process time or touch time both within
departments or at between department handoffs.
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How to make it @ Tactical Level
A closed loop system focused on process to drive improvement
Process
Focus
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What Lean demands from Leaders?
High level of attention to reinforce set of behaviors that replace our habits
Being sensitive to abnormalities from specified operating conditions
To look at problems as valuable nuggets of information to be mined for clues to make improvements
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What Lean demands from Leaders?
3-step approach
Provides templates and practices for leaders to enable to learn, look for & ask about and reinforce behaviors that sustain gains!
Go to the place of ActionLook at the process where the action takes place
Talk to people who are using the process to perform those actions
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What should Leaders do?
Leaders
Lead
Innovate
Solve
Collaborate
Win
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What Leaders must be Looking for?
Backsliding Maneuvering Going through the Motions of Implementation Conditions that appear to be in Steady state Project and Workshop != Continuous
Improvement Erosion of Process Value Stream != method for process
improvement17
What Leaders must Remember?
"People don't deliberately come to work to do a bad job - it's broken processes that prevent
people from maximizing their talent and the business from maximizing efficiency and
optimizing customer experience"
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Thank You