Through Lean, companies become good at streamlining their work processes. But be careful not to optimise the creativity process and of starving the organisation.
Through Lean, companies become good at streamlining their work processes. But be careful not to optimise the creativity process and of starving the organisation. The main principle within the production philosophy Lean is to eliminate resource waste, and throughout the years, Lean has helped countless large and small companies to be more efficient in the production of goods and services. But Lean doesn?t just represent benefits when applied to development work, warns Margareta Norell Bergendahl, Professor of integrated product development at KTH. 'Rationalisation is always good, Lean is indisputable if correctly applied. But Lean does not guarantee that companies do the right thing,' says Margareta Norell Bergendahl. ?Should the company decide to apply Lean to the organisation without due reflection, it could lose the capacity for foresight and will not be able to see which weaknesses exist, e.g. to see when the market changes.
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