How can you Impress Managers who don’t believe in Lean?
You might want to apply lean to your organization but, your managers don’t believe in lean methodologies and thus, you get no support. So, you start to try convincing them that lean is beneficial. But, ‘Boss is always right’ and if they say ‘No’ to lean then it should be accepted as a strict ‘No’. So, instead of wasting time to make fruitless efforts, invest your time in practicing lean yourself and see how your managers will support you in a short period of time.
Try placing lean in your processes. Observe and discuss the problems you find. Analyze your goals by asking yourself how you can improve the quality of your products/services, how you can add more products/services to please your customers, how you can reduce your lead time and how you can improve productivity with reduced costs. This way you can improve your own activities.
Also analyze things like how far you are from your takt time, the continuity of your job from start to finish, the possibility of continuing with other tasks simultaneously without having to finish one before moving to the next and how far you are able to satisfy customers’ demands.
In short, observe your own department carefully and apply lean practices so that you can change the way you see things. This will let you know how to increase value and eliminate waste thus, having you to be better organized. This will impress your managers and have them expanding your area of responsibility. This way you will convince them indirectly for lean and move up the corporate ladder faster.
To be able to bring such lean transformation in India, you need to be trained well by lean professionals. For getting information about the best lean training in India, you can visit http://www.leaninstitute.in/
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