Mankins, Michael
Lean strategy making: Standardizing your company’s approach can pay off. Here’s how. - Harvard Business Review - 103(3), May-Jun, 2025: p.42-51
In lean manufacturing, the goal is to establish precise procedures for making products in the safest, easiest, and most efficient manner possible. When critical processes become standard work, variation decreases, throughput increases, costs fall, and quality rises. Companies as diverse as Toyota, Amazon, Intel, and Nike leverage this approach in their operations to great effect.- Reproduced
https://hbr.org/2025/05/lean-strategy-making
Lean strategy making: Standardizing your company’s approach can pay off. Here’s how. - Harvard Business Review - 103(3), May-Jun, 2025: p.42-51
In lean manufacturing, the goal is to establish precise procedures for making products in the safest, easiest, and most efficient manner possible. When critical processes become standard work, variation decreases, throughput increases, costs fall, and quality rises. Companies as diverse as Toyota, Amazon, Intel, and Nike leverage this approach in their operations to great effect.- Reproduced
https://hbr.org/2025/05/lean-strategy-making