Every organization strives for better
performance, and one way of doing this is by following the Lean
Transformational Model.
This model begins with the basic premise that
every situation which causes a transformation is unique in itself. Due to this,
the prescriptive models of the past are no longer useful. It is here that the
Lean Transformational Model (LTM) developed by John Shook and others has gained
more relevance. This model is the result of decades of close interaction and
working with individuals and organizations which were attempting to transform
itself. LTM thus is a heuristic framework which can be used as a guide for
experimentation, problem-solving and learning with the aim of changing
organizations into lean enterprises.
So what exactly is a Lean Transformational
Model? LTM questions the very foundation
on which the basic thinking of an organization is based and moves on to understand the situational problem
which needs to be addressed. Once the situational problem is understood, LTM
tries to get a value-driven solution
to it by the means of Process
Improvement and Capability
Development. And while doing this, the model makes one introspect the Leadership Behavior and Management Systems of the organization.
Process Improvement involves a continuous
process of real and practical changes which will help in improving the quality
of work. While Capability Development, deals with sustainable improvement of
the capabilities of your work-force across various levels in your organization.
The essentials for Lean Transformation are:
- Setting an alignment around the purpose you aim to attain
- Value –Streams: That is design and support processes which provide value to your customers
- Develop a work-force which takes personal responsibility for solving problems
- Most of all, creating environment which facilitates effective problem solving
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Thus the lean Transformational Roadmap helps
you:
- Specify value from the standpoint of the end customer
- Identify all the steps in the value stream for each product and eliminates all those steps which do not create value
- Takes value-creating so that the products flow smoothly toward the customer
- When a flow is introduced, it lets customers pull value from the next upstream activity
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value is specified, the value streams are identified, wasted steps are removed
from the system, and flow & pull are introduced. Once this is done you can
begin the process again and continue it until a state of perfection is reached
in which perfect value is created with no waste
This way Lean Enterprise Institute has
changed its goal from “advanced lean thinking throughout the world” to the
mission of “making things better through lean thinking and practice”. Absence
of any of the elements which are mentioned in the above given model is sure to
misbalance your transformational efforts.
So if you too want to bring a productive
change in your organization you can power its transformational journey with the
Lean Transformation Model – the crux of which is a change in the basic
underlying thinking at all the levels of the organization and regularly
updating it through the Plan – Do –
Check- Act process.
