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Yes, both of these are real fears for those of us heavily involved in a lean transformation.

When we hit the wall one of two things happens.  Sometimes the lean program gets a back seat and dies a slow death and in other cases the CEO wants lean spread fast with direct accounting for bottom-line results.  Then we get cookie-cutter lean (e.g., spread the kanban, standardized work sheets everywhere, etc.) and managers who are accountable for results or else.  Often that means lean audits of various kinds.

Jeff Liker: Lean Has a Short Half-Life Without Intense Involvement Of The CEO » The Lean Edge.

I’m finally getting around to posting my presentation on lean that I gave at the 2010 BYU Chemical Engineering Alumni Association Dinner, held in Provo, Utah, October 8, 2010.

The title is Stories from the Dojo: How One Japanese Company is Improving Everything from Your Consumer Products to Your Health Care. The purpose was to provide an introduction to Lean to the alumni association. The video is 23 minutes long, and I’ve provided the full transcript below.

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